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Using social psychology to motivate contributions to online communities (2004)
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| Venue: | Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. doi:10.1145/ 1031607.1031642 |
| Citations: | 226 - 11 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Beenen04usingsocial,
author = {Gerard Beenen and Kimberly Ling and Xiaoqing Wang and Klarissa Chang and Dan Frankowski and Paul Resnick and Robert E. Kraut},
title = {Using social psychology to motivate contributions to online communities},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. doi:10.1145/ 1031607.1031642},
year = {2004},
pages = {93--116},
publisher = {IGI Global}
}
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Abstract
Under-contribution is a problem for many online communities. Social psychology theories of social loafing and goal-setting can provide mid-level design principles to address this problem. We tested the design principles in two field experiments. In one, members of an online movie recommender community were reminded of the uniqueness of their contributions and the benefits that follow from them. In the second, they were given a range of individual or group goals for contribution. As predicted by theory, individuals contributed when they were reminded of their uniqueness and when they were given specific and challenging goals, but other predictions were not borne out. The paper ends with suggestions and challenges for mining social science theories as well as implications for design.
