Computer-Mediated Communication Information Pools II

Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore CMC PD Tournament 2007! Held in second half of class on Tuesday Round-robin: play each strategy once Each game will have n turns Using IPDLX open-source PD software Used for tournaments by PD “professionals” Works with Java 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, any platform 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore

Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore Software details… public class CMCSample extends Strategy { private final static String _abbrName = "CMCS"; private final static String _name = "CMC Sample Strategy"; private final static String _description = "Not a proper strategy..."; ... 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore

Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore Software details… public double getMoveDecision() { // Default move double move = COOPERATE; // Do some magic ... // ... end magic. // Return your move for this round return move; } 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore

Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore Order The process of production and exchange is well-defined and the outcome product is clearly specified Coordination The roles of the various actors are clearly specified. 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore

Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore “… [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 — Cheshire & Fiore

“Talk” Pages on Wikipedia (Viégas et al. 2007) 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore

“Emergent” Order and Coordination 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore

What about Motivations? 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore

Other incentives besides the content value of the digital goods? If only 2% of the participants in any given Internet system contribute, why do they do so? 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore

Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore Revisiting Information Pools as Types of Exchange Information Pool Information Pool Generalized Exchange Productive Exchange 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore

Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore Information Pool 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore

Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore Intrinsic Motivations for Contributing to Wikipedia (Zhang and Zhu 2006) 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore

Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore Zhang and Zhu 2006 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore

Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore Altruism? Rational Zealotry? 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore

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Selective Incentives and Public Goods 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore

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 — Cheshire & Fiore

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Two Other Selective Incentives… Social Approval Observational Cooperation 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore

Digital Goods Study: Experimental Conditions (Cheshire 2007) Social Psychological Selective Incentive Conditions Social Approval High Low Observational Cooperation High Observational Cooperation Low Observational Cooperation None Control 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore

Results for All Conditions 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore

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 — Cheshire & Fiore

Designing for Social Psychological Incentives Outcomes for Collective Action Contribution Size Membership Diversity of Contribution Standardization Behaviors Social psychological incentives 11/21/2018 Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore