[Air-L] user generated content, motivation to post

[Dana Rotman]

Another paper addressing many motivational issues is -
Preece, Jennifer and Shneiderman, Ben (2009) "The Reader-to-Leader
Framework: Motivating Technology-Mediated Social Participation," *AIS
Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction* (1) 1, pp. 13-32
http://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol1/iss1/5/

~ Dana





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Dana Rotman
PhD candidate
University of Maryland iSchool

<http://aisel.aisnet.org/thci/vol1/iss1/5/>

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 2:05 PM, James Howison <james at howison.name> wrote:

> Interesting.
>
> There's a great article about motivations to post in open source user
> support communities (one of the few articles with data on reading, not just
> posting):
>
> Lakhani, K. and von Hippel, E. (2003). How open source software works:
> “free” user-to-user assistance. Research Policy, 32:923–943.
>
> Highlight for me: people read to learn, and post when it's easy for them to
> answer.  What that says about "reinforcing their existence as subjects" I'm
> not so sure :)
>
> --J
> http://james.howison.name
>
> On Feb 2, 2010, at 13:41, MARIA AMPARO LASEN DIAZ wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > A Mater student of one of my colleagues is researching about people's
> motivation to post, to share comments and evaluations about products and
> services, and about the social function of such activities. His hypothesis
> is that people augment their reality by being read and listened, that this
> activity would reinforce their existence as a subjects. He's looking for
> references and concepts about these questions. I would be grateful if you
> could help.
> >
> > Thank you very much,
> >
> > All the best
> >
> > Amparo Lasén Dpto Sociología I Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y
> Sociología UCM Campus de Somosaguas Pozuelo de Alarcón 28223 0034913942899
> alasen at cps.ucm.es
> >
> >
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