Readers are not free-riders: Reading as a form of participation on wikipedia

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 127-130

  Antin, Judd ^a   Cheshire, Coye ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Free riding; Incomplete information; Motivation; Participation; Social computing; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS; FREE-RIDERS; FREE-RIDING; INCOMPLETE INFORMATION; SOCIAL COMPUTING; WIKIPEDIA;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOTIVATION; RESEARCH;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 77950943419     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1718918.1718942     Document Type: Conference Paper

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