Study, Build, Repeat: Using Online Communities as a Research Platform

2014 ◽  
pp. 95-117
Author(s):  
Loren Terveen ◽  
Joseph A. Konstan ◽  
Cliff Lampe
Keyword(s):  
Online Communities ◽  
Research Platform

Discovery at sea; a heady mix of scientists, ships and sailors

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. L. Rice
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Research Platform ◽  
Almost All

The success or failure of science at sea depends on many factors, including the suitability of the vessel as a research platform and the support of the scientist's shipmates. This paper touches on a few of the classic examples of unsuitable ships provided for scientists and explorers, such as Wyville Thomson and Carpenter in the Lightning in 1868 and the relatively minor shortcomings of Scott's Discovery. But it concentrates on some of the personality clashes on research or exploration voyages ranging from Edmund Halley's experience of an insubordinate mate in the Paramore in 1698, to Nicolas Baudin's appalling relations with almost all of his companions in the Géographe and Naturaliste in 1800–1803. Since human nature does not change it is suggested that seagoing scientists should pay at least as much attention to the personalities of their prospective shipmates as to the characteristics of the ships in which they expect to sail.

Nurturing Online Communities: An Empirical Investigation

MIS Quarterly ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 425-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofia Bapna ◽  
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Mary J. Benner ◽  
Liangfei Qiu ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Communities ◽  
Empirical Investigation

Engaging Voluntary Contributions in Online Communities: A Hidden Markov Model

MIS Quarterly ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Chen ◽  
◽  
Xiahua Wei ◽  
Kevin Xiaoguo Zhu ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Markov Model ◽  
Hidden Markov Model ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Hidden Markov ◽  
Voluntary Contributions

The Internet is a Semicommons

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Grimmelmann
Keyword(s):  
Open Field ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Strategic Behavior ◽  
Private Property ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Field System ◽  
Technical Features ◽  
Dynamic Interplay ◽  
Enormous Success

78 Fordham Law Review 2799 (2010)The Internet is a semicommons. Private property in servers and network links coexists with a shared communications platform. This distinctive combination both explains the Internet's enormous success and illustrates some of its recurring problems.Building on Henry Smith's theory of the semicommons in the medieval open-field system, this essay explains how the dynamic interplay between private and common uses on the Internet enables it to facilitate worldwide sharing and collaboration without collapsing under the strain of misuse. It shows that key technical features of the Internet, such as its layering of protocols and the Web's division into distinct "sites," respond to the characteristic threats of strategic behavior in a semicommons. An extended case study of the Usenet distributed messaging system shows that not all semicommons on the Internet succeed; the continued success of the Internet depends on our ability to create strong online communities that can manage and defend the infrastructure on which they rely. Private and common both have essential roles to play in that task, a lesson recognized in David Post's and Jonathan Zittrain's recent books on the Internet.

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