Computer-Mediated Communication Information Pools Continued and Collaborative Editing
Computer-Mediated Communication Announcements Assignment #2 and Due Dates Tues Nov 9th (Assn 2) Presentations Nov 30th and Dec 2nd Final Projects Due Thurs Dec 9th Reviews You get 2 free passes, so use them wisely. No regular office hours this Thurs, but still meeting by appointment. 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication
Social Psychological Selective Incentives Social psychological processes could give small, positive feelings to contributors Social psychological processes may be small, but they can have a relatively powerful effect if the costs of contribution are very small as well 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication
But there’s more! (see: Ling et al. 2005) Uniqueness of contribution Similarity/Homogeneity of the Group Personal and community benefits (salience) ‘Reminders’ for intrinsic motivation 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication
Social Psychological Incentives Outcomes for Collective Action Contribution Size Membership Diversity of Contribution Standardization Behaviors Social psychological incentives 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication
Synchronous Feedback (Internet Field Experiment with Mycroft System) 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication
Feedback as Incentives 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication
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Computer-Mediated Communication I noticed that statistics (# posts made, relative rating) were all private, as in only available to the specific end user. I believe the majority of sites have these types of stats public. For instance, review sites have the "most helpful reviews" or "top reviewers by # of posts". Games also utilize these, showing the names of the top scorers or achievement ranks. To what degree should information of this kind be made public? And to what extend would making these public affect repeated contributions? My second concern is also related. I personally HATE getting spammed by thank you or reminder emails to participate in something. Therefore, people probably respond to different types of feedback differently. -Adam J. 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication
Computer-Mediated Communication I specifically remember filling out a survey about the Social Media Class room used in 202 and saying that I didn't feel compelled to participate any more than what was required because no one ever commented on my posts. Granted, for part of the semester, participation was required, effectively squelching any intrinsic motivation I might have had to write more posts, so I admit that there were some confounding issues there, but honestly, if my opinions do not matter, then why would I want to continue sharing them? -Emily W. 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication
Collaborative Editing 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication
Computer-Mediated Communication Rafaeli and Ariel 2008 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication
Computer-Mediated Communication Intrinsic Motivations for Contributing to Wikipedia (Zhang and Zhu 2006) 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication
Computer-Mediated Communication Zhang and Zhu 2006 Dependent variable is the log of the # of new articles created by an individual within a week 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication
Computer-Mediated Communication “… [we] note that administrative and coordinating elements seem to be growing at a faster pace than the bulk of articles in the encyclopedia [Wikipedia]” Viégas et al. 2007 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication
“Talk” Pages on Wikipedia (Viégas et al. 2007) 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication
“Emergent” Order and Coordination 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication
Targeting “Experts” …but they are not necessarily listening http://www.flickr.com/photos/maile/1745480/ 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication
Computer-Mediated Communication …whenever I think, "hey, I should put in a little effort," I decide that there are so many unwritten rules and social practices (as well as backchannels like talk where many of the real decisions and edits seem to be made and many, many pages of actual Wikipedia guidelines) that it isn't worth the effort. I wonder how many other people who aren't contributing to Wikipedia (and who actually have valuable contributions) are turned off by how many unwritten rules there are. -Alison M. 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication