[Air-L] Literature on Seeding Online Communities

[James A Danowski]

I present an example of an approach for generating optimal messages to seed 
or change the discussion in an online community:

Danowski, J. A. (1982).  A network-based content analysis methodology for 
computer-mediated communication: An           illustration with a computer 
bulletin board, in M. Burgoon (Ed.), Communication Yearbook 5 (pp. 
904-925). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books.


James A, Danowski
Department of Communication
University of Illinois at Chicago



At 03:57 PM 8/13/2007, you wrote:
>Laurie,
>I'm not familiar with any literature and am looking forward to others
>posting some good refs but you might expand your search to include "trolls."
>Charlie Balch
>professor of Computer Information Systems
>Arizona Western College
>
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>Hello all,
>
>I was wondering if anyone is familiar with any academic literature that
>discusses seeding forums within online communities? By seeding, I mean
>posting messages from community moderators to get conversations going within
>online communities. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Laurie Buis
>Post Doctoral Fellow at Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and
>Development Service buisl at msu.edu
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