Crowdsourcing and knowledge sharing: Strategic user behavior on Taskcn

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 246-255

  Yang, Jiang ^a   Adamic, Lada A ^a   Ackerman, Mark S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b University of Michigan   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Knowledge market; Learning; Online communities; Question answer sites; Virtual communities; Witkey

Indexed keywords

DESIGN IMPLICATIONS; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; MULTIPLE TASKS; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; USER BEHAVIORS; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

WEBSITES;

EID: 77950569726     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1386790.1386829     Document Type: Conference Paper

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