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2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
The microstructures of social tagging: a rational model
This article presents a rational model developed under the distributed cognition framework that explains how social tags influence knowledge acquisition and adaptation in explorat...
Wai-Tat Fu
CSCW
2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in wikipedia: quality through coordination
Wikipedia's success is often attributed to involving large numbers of contributors who improve the accuracy, completeness and clarity of articles while reducing bias. However...
Aniket Kittur, Robert E. Kraut
CSCW
2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Social summarization: does social feedback improve access to speech data?
We extend the notion of social tagging to construct social summaries of complex multimedia materials. Our system allows students to apply time-indexed multimedia tags such as hand...
Vaiva Kalnikaité, Steve Whittaker
CSCW
2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Leadership in online creative collaboration
Leadership plays a central role in the success of many forms of online creative collaboration, yet little is known about the challenges leaders must manage. In this paper, we repo...
Kurt Luther, Amy Bruckman
CSCW
2008
ACM
14 years 12 months ago
Representing community: knowing users in the face of changing constituencies
This paper traces the use of the concept 'community' by drawing attention to the ways in which it serves as an organizing principle within systems development. The data ...
David Ribes, Thomas A. Finholt