Whither the Experts?: Social affordances and the cultivation of experts in community Q&A systems

Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2009

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 450-455

  Welser, Howard T ^a   Gleave, Eric ^b   Barash, Vladimir ^c   Smith, Marc ^d   Meckes, Jessica ^e  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Social Dynamics Laboratory   (United States)

^d Social Analytics Research Telligent Systems   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordances; Computer mediated collective action; Emergence; Experts; Online community; Q a; Social media; Social roles

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; COLLECTIVE ACTION; CONTENT ANALYSIS; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; HIGH QUALITY; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; QUESTION AND ANSWER SYSTEM; SOCIAL MEDIA; WEB 2.0;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 70849089818     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSE.2009.254     Document Type: Conference Paper

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