The attention economy motivates participation in peerproduced sites on the Web like YouTube and Wikipedia. However, this economy appears to break down at work. We studied a large ...
Sarita Yardi, Scott A. Golder, Michael J. Brzozows...
How is work created, assigned, and completed on large-scale, crowd-powered systems like Wikipedia? And what design principles might enable these federated online systems to be mor...
Michel Krieger, Emily Margarete Stark, Scott R. Kl...
Eliciting user preferences for large datasets and creating rankings based on these preferences has many practical applications in community-based sites. This paper gives a new met...
—Social networking web sites, which allow users to create identities and link them to friends who have also created identities, are highly popular. Systems such as Facebook and M...
S. M. A. Abbas, Johan A. Pouwelse, Dick H. J. Epem...
Many consumers are misled into paying high prices due to the search costs associated with attaining price information [16]. The popularity of bargain-hunting web sites like Slickd...