Feed me: Motivating newcomer contribution in social network sites

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 945-954

  Burke, Moira ^a   Mariow, Cameron ^b   Lento, Thomas ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^b FACEBOOK   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution; Feedback; Motivating contribution; Online communities; Production incentives; Sharing; Singling out; Sns; Social learning; Social network sites

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION; MOTIVATING CONTRIBUTION; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; SHARING; SINGLING OUT; SNS; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIAL NETWORK SITES;

FEEDBACK; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOTIVATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84892470852     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518847     Document Type: Conference Paper

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