Feedback Loops of Attention in Peer Production

Wu, Fang; Wilkinson, Dennis M.; Huberman, Bernardo A.

doi:10.1109/cse.2009.430

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“…The path model in Session 2 confirmed this relationship, thus indicating the importance of in-group bonds for encouraging users' contributions to online boards. This may explain the finding by Wu, et al that peers' positive feedback helps users remain as contributors [32]. Next, our result shows that users are quite reactive to the process by which authority status is awarded to them.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

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Using interface cues in online health community boards to change impressions and encourage user contribution

Kim

Sundar

2011

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Online health message boards have become popular, as users not only gain information from other users but also share their own experiences. However, as with most venues of user-generated content, there is need to constantly make quality evaluations as one sifts through enormous amounts of content. Can interface cues, conveying (1) pedigree of users posting content and (2) popularity of the posted content, help new users efficiently make credibility assessments? Furthermore, can the assignment of these same cues to their own posts serve to motivate content generation on their part? These questions were investigated in a 2-session between-subjects experiment (N = 99) with a prototype of a message-board that experimentally varied interface cues, and found that popularity indicators are more influential than pedigree indicators for both evaluation of existing content and contribution of new content. Findings also suggest theoretical mechanismsinvolving such concepts as perceived authority, bandwagon effects, sense of agency and sense of community-by which cues affect user experience, providing rich implications for designing and deploying interface cues.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Using interface cues in online health community boards to change impressions and encourage user contribution

Kim

Sundar

2011

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…(Or there may be other factors causing both.) As for pins and activity rate, a correlation of 0.32 on SNS data is strong enough to confirm Wu et al's [66] finding of a positive feedback loop between feedback on posts and posting frequency. However, the relationship is clearly weaker than the correlation between pins and followers.…”

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confidence: 82%

Do I Need To Follow You?

Gelley

John

2015

Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work &Amp; Social Computing

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Pinterest is a Social Network Site (SNS) centered around the curation and sharing of visual content. The site encourages users to form ties with (follow) other users based on mutual interests, and use these ties to discover and share content. In this work, we examine the efficacy and relevance of the Pinterest follow mechanism in driving content discovery and curation. We collect a sample of user activity and find that the vast majority (88%) of the unique users who interact with an average user's content are non-followers. Conversely, only 12.3% of a user's followers interact with any of their pins. Users who discover and repost content from outside their follow network also do not subsequently follow the contributors of that content. Our results strongly suggest that following is neither heavily utilized nor strongly effective for driving content discovery and sharing on Pinterest.

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“…Huberman and colleagues [14] found a consistent pattern over time in which YouTube contributors posted more videos if two weeks earlier the videos they had contributed had received more views. In fact, recognition may be so reinforcing that it can create a positive feedback loop accounting for large discrepancies that are seen between users who contribute at high rates and those that contribute at low rates [33].…”

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Participation in an online mathematics community

Tausczik

Pennebaker

2012

Proceedings of the ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

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Why do people contribute content to communities of questionanswering, such as Yahoo! Answers? We investigated this issue on MathOverflow, a site dedicated to research-level mathematics, in which users ask and answer questions. MathOverflow is the first in a growing number of specialized Q&A sites using the Stack Exchange platform for scientific collaboration. In this study we combine responses to a survey with collected data on posting behavior on the site. User behavior suggests that building reputation is an important incentive, even though users do not report this in the survey. Level of expertise affects users' reported motivation to help others, but does not affect the importance of reputation building. We discuss the implications for the design of communities to target and encourage more contributions.

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Feedback Loops of Attention in Peer Production

Cited by 30 publications

References 20 publications

Using interface cues in online health community boards to change impressions and encourage user contribution

Using interface cues in online health community boards to change impressions and encourage user contribution

Do I Need To Follow You?

Participation in an online mathematics community

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