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CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Technology-mediated contributions: editing behaviors among new wikipedians
The power-law distribution of participation characterizes a wide variety of technology-mediated social participation (TMSP) systems, and Wikipedia is no exception. A minority of a...
Judd Antin, Coye Cheshire, Oded Nov
IJKL
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Lurking: a challenge or a fruitful strategy? A comparison between lurkers and active participants in an online corporate communi
: For todays organisations to obtain competitive advantages, online corporate Communities of Practice (CoPs) are indispensable. However, often the majority of its participants does...
Mirjam Neelen, Sibren Fetter
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Instant messaging bots: accountability and peripheral participation for textual user interfaces
Over the last several years, studies of instant messaging have observed its increasing role in the workplace[1] and in social situations[2]. We propose that modifying applications...
Stephen Chan, Benjamin Hill, Sarita Yardi
GROUP
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Becoming Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia
Traditional activities change in surprising ways when computermediated communication becomes a component of the activity system. In this descriptive study, we leverage two perspec...
Susan L. Bryant, Andrea Forte, Amy Bruckman
HICSS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Worker Commitment to Virtual Organizations
As society enters the twenty-first century there is a growing realization that information technology (IT) is heavily influencing organizational structures [1]. One such structure...
Yulin Fang, Derrick J. Neufeld
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Readers are not free-riders: reading as a form of participation on wikipedia
The success of Wikipedia as a large-scale collaborative effort has spurred researchers to examine the motivations and behaviors of Wikipedia’s participants. However, this resear...
Judd Antin, Coye Cheshire