Coordination and beyond: Social functions of groups in open content production

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 417-426

  Forte, Andrea ^a   Kittur, Niki ^b   Larco, Vanessa ^c   Zhu, Haiyi ^b   Bruckman, Amy ^d   Kraut, Robert E ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Playdom   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

groupwork; open content; peer production; wikipedia; wikiprojects

Indexed keywords

GROUPWORK; OPEN CONTENT; PEER PRODUCTION; WIKIPEDIA; WIKIPROJECTS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; WEBSITES;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84863421324     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2145204.2145270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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