Task Specialization in Social Production Communities: The Case of Geographic Volunteer Work

Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 217-224

  Masli, Mikhil ^a   Priedhorsky, Reid ^b   Terveen, Loren ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICS; SOCIAL PRODUCTIONS; SPECIALISATION; STREET MAPS; WIKIPEDIA; WORK TYPE;

EID: 85167423969     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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