Becoming Wikipedian: Transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia

Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-10

  Bryant, Susan L ^a   Forte, Andrea ^a   Bruckman, Amy ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity theory; Community; Legitimate peripheral participation; Wiki; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY THEORY; COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA; SOCIAL ACTIVITIES; WIKIPEDIA;

ABERRATIONS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS;

EID: 77950316551     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1099203.1099205     Document Type: Conference Paper

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