1. Coye Cheshire & Andrew Fiore June 24, 2015 // Computer-Mediated Communication Collective Action and Public Goods II

2. 6/24/2015Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore1 Solutions to the Free-Rider Problem?  Selective Incentives  Self-Interest

3. 6/24/2015Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore2 Types of Social Dilemmas Different social dilemma games make different use of the payouts: T>R>P>S Prisoner’s Dilemma T>R>S>P Chicken T>P>R>S Deadlock R>T>P>S Stag Hunt Coop.Defect Coop. Defect A B 3 (R) 5 (T) 0 (S) 3 (R) 0 (S) 5 (T) 1 (P) Reward Temptation Sucker Punishment

4. 6/24/2015Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore3 Example: Chicken Game T>R>S>P Chicken Coop = Swerve Defect = Do Not Swerve Coop.Defect Coop. Defect A B 3 (R) 5 (T) 1 (S) 3 (R) 1 (S) 5 (T) 0 (P) Reward Temptation Sucker Punishment

5. 6/24/2015Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore4 Life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short” (Hobbes 1651)

6. 6/24/2015Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore5 Reconsidering the Free-Rider Problem Communality and Discretionary Databases “Second-Order” Communality

7. 6/24/2015Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore6 Problem shift– Making private data public Maintaining information privacy

8. 6/24/2015Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore7 Collective Action and Group Size Smaller groups tend to have a better chance of producing a public good (Olson 1965) Why?  More benefits for each person  Larger impact of any single contribution  Generally, lower costs of organization

9. 6/24/2015Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore8 But what about REALLY big groups? Analyzing and Visualizing the Semantic Coverage of Wikipedia and Its Authors (Holloway, Bozicevic and Borner 2005) http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0512085

10. 6/24/2015Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore9 Self-Interest in Small versus Large Groups

11. 6/24/2015Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore10 Fallacy of Individuals and Collectives See: Mancur Olson (1965) “The Logic of Collective Action”

12. 6/24/2015Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore11 Online Collectives areGood!BAD!?

13. 6/24/2015Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore12 Finding “Roles” in Online Collective Action Behaviors

14. 6/24/2015Computer-Mediated Communication — Cheshire & Fiore13 Structural similarity

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