Many virtual communities involve ongoing discussions, with large numbers of users and established, if implicit rules for participation. As new users enter communities like this, b...
Widespread access to the Internet has led to the formation of geographically dispersed scientific communities collaborating through the network. The tools supporting such collabor...
Although a large body of work are devoted to finding communities in static social networks, only a few studies examined the dynamics of communities in evolving social networks. I...
As sensing technologies become increasingly distributed and democratized, citizens and novice users are becoming responsible for the kinds of data collection and analysis that have...
Wesley Willett, Paul M. Aoki, Neil Kumar, Sushmita...
The objective of this research is to analyse the ways members of open-source software communities participate in design. In particular we focus on how users of an Open Source (OS) ...