Surviving an "eternal September" how an online community managed a surge of newcomers

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 1152-1156

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Newcomers; Norms and governance; Online communities; Peer production; Qualitative methods

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); WEBSITES;

NEWCOMERS; NORMS AND GOVERNANCE; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; PEER PRODUCTION; QUALITATIVE METHOD;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 85014777597     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2858036.2858356     Document Type: Conference Paper

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