Socializing volunteers in an online community: A field experiment

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 325-334

  Farzan, Rosta ^a   Kraut, Robert ^a   Pal, Aditya ^b   Konstan, Joseph ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

experiment; online volunteer communities; socialization

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYEES TRAINING; EVALUATION EXPERIMENTS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HIGH POTENTIAL; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE TECHNICAL SUPPORT; SOCIALIZATION;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; EXPERIMENTS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84858214651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2145204.2145256     Document Type: Conference Paper

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