I haven’t been updating this blog much in the last couple of weeks because I’ve been doing the final writing push for my dissertation. After spending 12+ hours a day writing the dissertation, it is hard to sit down and write more for a blog. But now that is done, and Emilee and I [...]
Also taggedGiving users a private, individual reason to contribute to social media can be a powerful incentive to induce contributions. Del.icio.us motivates users to create bookmarks by making them available on the Internet from anywhere and by helping users to organize their bookmarks with tags. These bookmarks are then shared with other users as a side [...]
Also taggedOne of the difficulties in understanding why people contribute to social computing systems is that each person is not acting alone. One person’s decision is potentially affected by everyone else on the site, and everyone else’s decision is in turn potentially affected by that one person’s decision. For example, I sometimes write messages on Facebook [...]
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