The cost of collaboration for code and art: Evidence from a remixing community

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1035-1045

  Hill, Benjamin Mako ^a   Monroy Hernández, Andrés ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Computers and children; Creativity support tools; Online communities; Remixing; Social computing and social navigation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; CREATIVITY SUPPORT TOOLS; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; REMIXING; SOCIAL COMPUTING AND SOCIAL NAVIGATION;

ANIMATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WEBSITES;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84874834374     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2441776.2441893     Document Type: Conference Paper

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