Digital technologies are changing the nature of teamwork in ways that have important
implications for leadership. Though conceptually rich and multi-disciplinary, much of the …

There has been considerable interest in examining the educational potential of playing
video games. One crucial element, however, has traditionally been left out of these …

By lowering the costs of communication, the web promises to enable distributed collectives
to act around shared issues. However, many collective action efforts never succeed: while …

With an emphasis on peer–produced content and collaboration, Wikipedia exemplifies a
departure from traditional management and organizational models. This iconic" project" has …

In this short introductory piece, we define open collaboration and contextualize the diverse
articles in this special issue in a common vocabulary and history. We provide a definition of …

Traditional research on leadership in online communities has consistently focused on the
small set of people occupying leadership roles. In this paper, we use a model of shared …

To lower the threshold to participation in crowdsourcing, we present twitch crowdsourcing:
crowdsourcing via quick contributions that can be completed in one or two seconds. We …

In story writing, the diverse perspectives of the crowd could support an author's search for
the perfect character, setting, or plot. However, structuring crowd collaboration is …

The field of Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) works to understand and to design
interactions between people and machines. Increasingly, human collectives are using …

Although science is becoming increasingly collaborative, there are remarkably few success
stories of online collaborations between professional scientists that actually result in real …