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

[Marc Smith]

I believe XKCD does the best summary of what motivates many to contribute to
Internet content.

http://xkcd.com/386/

-
Marc



On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Dana Rotman <danarot at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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