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

[Marc Smith]

In addition to the fine work already cited, Kollock's *The economies of
online cooperation: Gifts and public goods in cyberspace* still has utility
in framing motivations for contribution.  Available via books.google:

http://books.google.com/books?id=NxAuOTt9cvIC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA219#v=onepage&q=kollock&f=false

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Marc



On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Marc Smith <marc.smith.email at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ==================
>> 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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