Transcript Computer-Mediated Communication

Computer-Mediated
Communication
Information Pools Continued and
Collaborative Editing
Coye Cheshire
// March 26, 2016
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 Assignment #2 and Due Dates
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 Presentations Nov 30th and Dec 2nd
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 You get 2 free passes, so use them wisely.
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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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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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Social Psychological Incentives
Outcomes for Collective Action
Contribution
Size
Diversity of
Standardization
Membership
Contribution
Behaviors
Social psychological incentives
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Synchronous Feedback
(Internet Field Experiment with Mycroft System)
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Feedback as Incentives
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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.
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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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Collaborative Editing
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Rafaeli and Ariel 2008
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Intrinsic Motivations for Contributing
to Wikipedia (Zhang and Zhu 2006)
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Zhang and Zhu 2006
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“… [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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“Talk” Pages on
Wikipedia
(Viégas et al. 2007)
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“Emergent” Order and Coordination
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Targeting “Experts”
…but they are not necessarily listening
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maile/1745480/
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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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