Using Metadata Signals to Support Stigmergy

Besten, Matthijs den; Gaio, Loris; Rossi, Alessandro; Dalle, Jean‐Michel

doi:10.1109/sasow.2010.28

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“…Tag clouds make use of the dynamics of stigmergy [25] a particularly valuable form of collective self-organizing behaviour that has seen much application in the field of complex adaptive systems for learning and in other fields (e.g., [26,27]. Stigmergy emerges through reactions to signs left in the environment by other individuals engaged in the same activity (e.g., forest footpaths, termite mounds, movements of money markets), and it can strongly influence behaviours in such systems, allowing the crowd to guide the individual to useful and reliable people, paths and resources.…”

Section: Hardening and Softening In Setsmentioning

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On the Design of Social Media for Learning

Dron

Anderson

2014

Social Sciences

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This paper presents two conceptual models that we have developed for understanding ways that social media can support learning. One model relates to the "social" aspect of social media, describing the different ways that people can learn with and from each other, in one or more of three social forms: groups, networks and sets. The other model relates to the 'media' side of social media, describing how technologies are constructed and the roles that people play in creating and enacting them, treating them in terms of softness and hardness. The two models are complementary: neither provides a complete picture but, in combination, they help to explain how and why different uses of social media may succeed or fail and, as importantly, are intended to help us design learning activities that make most effective use of the technologies. We offer some suggestions as to how media used to support different social forms can be softened and hardened for different kinds of learning applications.

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Section: Hardening and Softening In Setsmentioning

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On the Design of Social Media for Learning

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Anderson

2014

Social Sciences

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“…As den Besten et al show [19], site users can employ the NPOV tag denoting that a particular type of revision (a neutralising of article perspective) is suggested. These tags act as the initial qualitative trigger contribution, and where the content modification activity keeps the contribution momentum going.…”

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Stigmergy in web 2.0

Dipple

Raymond

Docherty

2012

Proceedings of the 4th Annual ACM Web Science Conference

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Building Web 2.0 sites does not necessarily ensure the success of the site. We aim to better understand what improves the success of a site by drawing insight from biologically inspired design patterns. Web 2.0 sites provide a mechanism for human interaction enabling powerful intercommunication between massive volumes of users. Early Web 2.0 site providers that were previously dominant are being succeeded by newer sites providing innovative social interaction mechanisms.Understanding what site traits contribute to this success drives research into Web sites mechanics using models to describe the associated social networking behaviour. Some of these models attempt to show how the volume of users provides a selforganising and self-contextualisation of content. One model describing coordinated environments is called stigmergy, a term originally describing coordinated insect behavior. This paper explores how exploiting stigmergy can provide a valuable mechanism for identifying and analysing online user behavior specifically when considering that user freedom of choice is restricted by the provided web site functionality. This will aid our building better collaborative Web sites improving the collaborative processes.

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“…But this must be ne tuned:Choi et al (2010), also analyzing the messages on the personal pages, showed that welcome messages, assistance written in newcomers' pages are quite eective to improve their contribution, when invitations led to steeper declines in edits. Other actions can also attract contributors and structure the teams or, more precisely the discussions, such as template message on the articles: Rossi et al (2010) studied the role played by NPoV (neutral Policy Violation) templates, which if not made completely explicit by their analysis, seem to be used to settle evidence of a latent conict(Den Besten et al, 2010),…”

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What We Know About Wikipedia: A Review of the Literature Analyzing the Project(s)

Jullien

2012

SSRN Journal

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This article proposes a review of the literature analyzing Wikipedia as a collective system for producing knowledge. 1 Introduction. Wikipedia project is one of the tremendous successful project of knowledge production ever, with more than 3.5 million articles for the English version and nearly one million visits per day 2 by researchers (Ortega, 2009). From an Information System research point of view, this example of open knowledge projects should provide useful information on how structuring online open knowledge project for it to succeed 4 , but also for internal organization's projects, as rms are institutions created to allow collaboration (Simon, 1957; March and Simon, 1958), and even dened by Grant (1996) as "institution for integrating knowledge [of its members]. And regarding this function, the wiki tool, allowing distant and sequential collaboration around a structured document seems to be very promising (Hasan and Pfa, 2006a,c,b). It also, for libraries, a new platform to stock information and knowledge resources, to to promote digital collection and thus to reach new users (Pressley and McCallum, 2008), and today a prominent source of online information, notably for health (Laurent and Vickers, 2009), where false information may have dramatic consequences. But to be used as a model, how the model works is needed to be better understood. This is need for internal purpose too: the Wikipedia project managers may want to monitor the activity: is the English Wikipedia more ecient than the French one, or are projects (portals) more or less ecient, more or less productive, is there a minimal, an optimal number of editors for an article 5 ? And, to quote Crowston et al. (2006, p. 124), to be able to learn from teams that are working well, we need to have a denition of`working well'. To do so, we rst rely on the literature of Information System, but also on the literature of knowledge common, to propose a framework of how the elements interact. Then, we propose are review of the existing literature on how Wikipedia works. 2 Theoretical contributions. 2.1 Research questions. There are numerous research articles dealing with Wikipedia (7029 articles in the science direct base on October 20 th), notably because this encyclopedia is used as a test base in information and 4 Even if the comparison between dierent industries must be done very carefully, as shown by Müller-Seitz and Reger (2009) on the comparison between open-source with Open Source car and Wikipedia projects. 5 For research questions pointed by the Wikimedia foundation, which support the Wikipedia project, see http: //meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Index. 2 Theoretical contributions. 3 language processing systems 6 and information retrieval tasks (Buriol et al., 2006). This socio-technical project (Bryant et al., 2005; Benker and Nissenbaum, 2006), where the tools used and the rules mediate and shape user activity around open collaborative writing, can be seen as a community of practice (Hara et al., 2010), or even as an aggregation of multiple co...

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Using Metadata Signals to Support Stigmergy

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On the Design of Social Media for Learning

On the Design of Social Media for Learning

Stigmergy in web 2.0

What We Know About Wikipedia: A Review of the Literature Analyzing the Project(s)

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