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CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Socialization tactics in wikipedia and their effects
Socialization of newcomers is critical both for conventional groups. It helps groups perform effectively and the newcomers develop commitment. However, little empirical research h...
Boreum Choi, Kira Alexander, Robert E. Kraut, John...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The work of sustaining order in wikipedia: the banning of a vandal
In this paper, we examine the social roles of software tools in the English-language Wikipedia, specifically focusing on autonomous editing programs and assisted editing tools. Th...
R. Stuart Geiger, David Ribes
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
What's it worth to you?: the costs and affordances of CMC tools to asian and american users
In recent years, a growing number of studies examining how culture shapes computer-mediated communication (CMC) have appeared in the CHI and CSCW literature. Findings from these s...
Leslie D. Setlock, Susan R. Fussell
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Understanding together: sensemaking in collaborative information seeking
An important aspect of collaborative information seeking (CIS) is making sense of the information found, i.e., collaborative sensemaking. We conducted an ethnographic study of the...
Sharoda A. Paul, Madhu C. Reddy
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Egalitarians at the gate: one-sided gatekeeping practices in social media
Although Wikipedia has increasingly attracted attention for its in-depth and timely coverage of breaking news stories, the social dynamics of how Wikipedia editors process breakin...
Brian Keegan, Darren Gergle
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Gone but not forgotten: designing for disconnection in synchronous groupware
Synchronous groupware depends on the assumption that people are fully connected to the others in the group, but there are many situations (network delay, network outage, or explic...
Carl Gutwin, T. C. Nicholas Graham, Christopher Wo...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Notifications and awareness: a field study of alert usage and preferences
Desktop notifications are designed to provide awareness of information while a user is attending to a primary task. Unfortunately the awareness can come with the price of disrupti...
Shamsi T. Iqbal, Eric Horvitz
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Same places, same things, same people?: mining user similarity on social media
In this work we examine nine different sources for user similarity as reflected by activity in social media applications. We suggest a classification of these sources into three c...
Ido Guy, Michal Jacovi, Adam Perer, Inbal Ronen, E...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Student athletes on facebook
Student athletes at U.S. universities are bound by rules affecting their participation in their sport and are highly visible to their fellow students and a larger public of fans. ...
Cliff Lampe, Nicole Ellison
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Is it really about me?: message content in social awareness streams
In this work we examine the characteristics of social activity and patterns of communication on Twitter, a prominent example of the emerging class of communication systems we call...
Mor Naaman, Jeffrey Boase, Chih-Hui Lai