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PERSUASIVE
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Social Comparisons to Motivate Contributions to an Online Community
It is increasingly common for online communities to rely on members rather than editors to contribute and moderate content. To motivate members to perform these tasks, some sites d...
F. Maxwell Harper, Sherry Xin Li, Yan Chen, Joseph...
CSCW
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Using social psychology to motivate contributions to online communities
Under-contribution is a problem for many online communities. Social psychology theories of social loafing and goal-setting can provide mid-level design principles to address this ...
Gerard Beenen, Kimberly S. Ling, Xiaoqing Wang, Kl...
HICSS
2005
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Motivating Content Contributions to Online Communities: Toward a More Comprehensive Theory
This paper extends previous research by proposing a model that can help explain ways to motivate member contributions to online communities (OCs). New features in the model will a...
Steven J. J. Tedjamulia, Douglas L. Dean, David R....
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Motivating participation by displaying the value of contribution
One of the important challenges faced by designers of online communities is eliciting sufficent contributions from community members. Users in online communities may have difficul...
Al Mamunur Rashid, Kimberly S. Ling, Regina D. Tas...