Beyond Wikipedia: Coordination and conflict in online production groups

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 215-224

  Kittur, Aniket ^a   Kraut, Robert E ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Collective intelligence; Conflict; Coordination; Distributed cognition; Online production; Social computing; Wiki; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE; COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCES; DISTRIBUTED COGNITION; SOCIAL COMPUTING; WIKIPEDIA;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 77950906169     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1718918.1718959     Document Type: Conference Paper

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