When Online Communities Become Self-Aware
When Online Communities Become Self-Aware
dc.contributor.author | Gazan, Rich | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-09T20:11:36Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-10-09T20:11:36Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
dc.description.abstract | Evidence from a long-term participant observation suggests that a critical point in the evolution of an online community occurs when participants begin to focus less on topical content and more on one another. When content restrictions were removed from a question answering community and social technologies were introduced, the proportion of factual content on the site steadily diminished in favor of more social content: questions specifically about site users and appropriate behavior, suggesting an awareness of themselves as a community. Positive effects of self-aware behavior included increased site participation, social support and open normative debates. Negative effects included increased conflict, rogue behaviors and factionalism. | |
dc.identifier.citation | Rich Gazan (2009). When Online Communities Become Self-Aware. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-42), 5-9 January 2009, Waikoloa, HI. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/49419 | |
dc.language.iso | en-US | |
dc.subject | Online social networks | |
dc.subject | Question-answering systems | |
dc.title | When Online Communities Become Self-Aware | |
dc.type | Conference Paper | |
dc.type.dcmi | Text |
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