1. Computer-Mediated Communication
Information Pools Continued and Collaborative Editing

2. 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.
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3. 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
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4. 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
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5. Social Psychological Incentives
Outcomes for Collective Action
Contribution
Size
Membership
Diversity of
Contribution
Standardization
Behaviors
Social psychological incentives
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6. Synchronous Feedback (Internet Field Experiment with Mycroft System)
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7. Feedback as Incentives
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9. 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 s to participate in something. Therefore, people probably respond to different types of feedback differently.
-Adam J.
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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.
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11. Collaborative Editing
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12. Computer-Mediated Communication
Rafaeli and Ariel 2008
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13. Computer-Mediated Communication
Intrinsic Motivations for Contributing to Wikipedia (Zhang and Zhu 2006)
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14. Computer-Mediated Communication
Zhang and Zhu 2006
Dependent variable is the log of the # of new articles created by an individual within a week
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15. 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
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16. “Talk” Pages on Wikipedia
(Viégas et al. 2007)
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17. “Emergent” Order and Coordination
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18. Targeting “Experts” …but they are not necessarily listening
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…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.
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