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ICONFERENCE
2011
13 years 9 hour ago
Finding social roles in Wikipedia
: The concept of "social role" has long been used in social science describe the intersection of behavioral, meaningful, and structural attributes that emerge regularly i...
Howard T. Welser, Dan Cosley, Gueorgi Kossinets, A...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 1 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
ICWSM
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Governance in Social Media: A Case Study of the Wikipedia Promotion Process
Social media sites are often guided by a core group of committed users engaged in various forms of governance. A crucial aspect of this type of governance is deliberation, in whic...
Jure Leskovec, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Jon M. Klei...
CHI
2009
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Coordination in collective intelligence: the role of team structure and task interdependence
The success of Wikipedia has demonstrated the power of peer production in knowledge building. However, unlike many other examples of collective intelligence, tasks in Wikipedia ca...
Aniket Kittur, Bryant Lee, Robert E. Kraut
WIKIS
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
The social roles of bots and assisted editing programs
This paper investigates software programs as non-human social actors in Wikipedia, arguing that influence must not be overlooked in social scientific research of the on-line encyc...
R. Stuart Geiger