Web 2.0 applications like Flickr, YouTube, or Del.icio.us are increasingly popular online communities for creating, editing and sharing content. However, the rapid increase in siz...
The asymmetry of activity in virtual communities is of great interest. While participation in the activities of virtual communities is crucial for a community's survival and ...
Traditional activities change in surprising ways when computermediated communication becomes a component of the activity system. In this descriptive study, we leverage two perspec...
We analyze empirical data of Germany’s largest online social lending platform Smava.de to exemplarily study the contribution of unstructured, ambiguous, or unverified informatio...
Online communities are extremely popular; yet most of them still rely primarily on text for knowledge creation and communication. This paper describes a graphical webpoll prototyp...