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WWW
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
How opinions are received by online communities: a case study on amazon.com helpfulness votes
There are many on-line settings in which users publicly express opinions. A number of these offer mechanisms for other users to evaluate these opinions; a canonical example is Ama...
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Gueorgi Kossinet...
ICONFERENCE
2011
14 years 4 months ago
Lifting the veil: the expression of values in online communities
Wikipedia’s stated mission is to provide a free encyclopedia that people all over the world can use and contribute to. However, while Wikipedia is successful at providing access...
Jonathan T. Morgan, Robert M. Mason, Karine Nahon
HICSS
2009
IEEE
123views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Users' Influence on the Success of Online Communities
This paper examines how different facets of favorable user behavior drive the success of an online community by using a unique data set with surveys from 1,389 participants from t...
Jakob Assmann, Philipp Sandner, Sophie Ahrens
EDM
2010
152views Data Mining» more  EDM 2010»
14 years 11 months ago
Peer Production of Online Learning Resources: A Social Network Analysis
This paper describes methods for collecting user activity data in a peer production educational system, the Instructional Architect (IA), and then takes a social network perspectiv...
Beijie Xu, Mimi Recker
CHI
2008
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Understanding geocaching practices and motivations
Geocaching is a location-based activity that has been practiced for a number of years. As a sustained and established activity it represents an important opportunity for understan...
Kenton O'Hara