Leadership in online creative collaboration

Luther, Kurt; Bruckman, Amy

doi:10.1145/1460563.1460619

Cited by 68 publications

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“…• Arrangements: How multiple animation submissions are integrated: linear, nonlinear, or continuous [1]. (1 code)…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Newgrounds community members frequently organize multi-author, collaboratively-made animations called "collabs" using the site's discussion forums [1]. To start a collab, one member posts a new thread, called a "collab thread," in the Flash forum describing the project and inviting community members to join.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The goal of many collab members is the completion of an animated movie or game [1]. Animators refer to this completion as a "successful" collab, whereas incomplete projects are "failed" or "dead."…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Predicting successful completion of online collaborative animation projects

Luther

Ziegler

Caine

et al. 2009

Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition

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Online creative collaboration projects are started every day, but many fail to produce new artifacts of value. In this poster, we address the question of why some of these projects succeed and others fail. Our quantitative analysis of 892 online collaborative animation projects, or "collabs," indicates that the early presence of organizational and structural elements, particularly those of a technical nature, can predict successful completion.

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“…• Arrangements: How multiple animation submissions are integrated: linear, nonlinear, or continuous [1]. (1 code)…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Predicting successful completion of online collaborative animation projects

Luther

Ziegler

Caine

et al. 2009

Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition

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“…On the one hand, authoring tools support the collaboration of creative communities (Bardzell 2007;Bruckman 2002;Davis and Moar 2005;Luther and Bruckman 2008) and the distribution of their work to the public (Cook et al 2009). On the other hand, online technologies like Wikipedia rely on amateurs together with professionals who voluntarily contribute their knowledge (Nov 2007).…”

Section: Collaborative Technologies For Amateurs Professionals and mentioning

confidence: 99%

Collaboration on Social Network Sites: Amateurs, Professionals and Celebrities

Ploderer

Howard

Thomas

2010

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Amateurs are found in arts, sports, or entertainment, where they are linked with professional counterparts and inspired by celebrities. Despite the growing number of CSCW studies in amateur and professional domains, little is known about how technologies facilitate collaboration between these groups. Drawing from a 1.5-year field study in the domain of bodybuilding, this paper describes the collaboration between and within amateurs, professionals, and celebrities on social network sites. Social network sites help individuals to improve their performance in competitions, extend their support network, and gain recognition for their achievements. The findings show that amateurs benefit the most from online collaboration, whereas collaboration shifts from social network sites to offline settings as individuals develop further in their professional careers. This shift from online to offline settings constitutes a novel finding, which extends previous work on social network sites that has looked at groups of amateurs and professionals in isolation. As a contribution to practice, we highlight design factors that address this shift to offline settings and foster collaboration between and within groups.

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“…However, group projects called "collabs" are also created. We are studying the challenges faced by collab leaders [28], and plan to design a support tool to make this kind of group project easier.…”

Section: Collaborative Creative Projectsmentioning

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Social Support for Creativity and Learning Online

Bruckman

2008

2008 Second IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning

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In the mid 1990s, we began to ask some hopeful questions about the potential of the Internet to empower the individual: Can users become creators of content, rather than merely recipients? What can people learn through working on personally meaningful projects and sharing them online? If content creation is to some degree democratized, does this have broader cultural or political implications? This enthusiasm faded a bit by the dot-com bust, and many began to wonder: will it be business-as-usual after all?But then it started happening. On Wikipedia, thousands of volunteers collaborate to create a shared resource that, while not without flaws, is astonishing in its breadth and speed of adaptation. Furthermore, the process of writing this resource is truly collaborative to a degree that should make any Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) professional envious. On sites like deviantART and Newgrounds, people collaborate on original art projects and animations. On MySpace, teens create their own web pages, sharing snippets of html and expressing themselves in a quintessentially teenage fashion. Blogs written by ordinary citizens have become influential in politics and culture, almost just as envisioned by science fiction writer Orson Scott Card. Peer production of content, it seems, has arrived.What has made this explosion of creativity possible is not better tools for production (though those help), but rather social contexts for sharing those products with others. The easy availability of an audience motivates people to create. In this paper, I'll review the history of peer production of content on the Internet, and present current research in the Electronic Learning Communities (ELC) Lab at Georgia Tech that aims to help support this phenomenon. Drawing on work in the fields of online community design, CSCW, and computer-supported cooperative learning, I'll discuss how we can design Internet-based environments conducive to creativity, collaboration, and learning.

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Leadership in online creative collaboration

Cited by 68 publications

References 33 publications

Predicting successful completion of online collaborative animation projects

Predicting successful completion of online collaborative animation projects

Collaboration on Social Network Sites: Amateurs, Professionals and Celebrities

Social Support for Creativity and Learning Online

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