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CSCW
2012
ACM
12 years 17 days ago
Socializing volunteers in an online community: a field experiment
Although many off-line organizations give their employees training, mentorship, a cohort and other socialization experiences that improve their retention and productivity, online ...
Rosta Farzan, Robert Kraut, Aditya Pal, Joseph A. ...
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
2002
IEEE
150views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2002»
13 years 9 months ago
Social Capital and Volunteerism in Virtual Communities: The Case of the Internet Chess Club
This paper considers the theory of social capital and volunteerism in an online gaming community, the Internet Chess Club (ICC). We discuss how increased social capital provides b...
Mark Ginsburg, Suzanne P. Weisband
ICDE
2008
IEEE
151views Database» more  ICDE 2008»
14 years 6 months ago
Matching Schemas in Online Communities: A Web 2.0 Approach
When integrating data from multiple sources, a key task that online communities often face is to match the schemas of the data sources. Today, such matching often incurs a huge wor...
Robert McCann, Warren Shen, AnHai Doan