Experts describe the latest research in a rapidly growing multidisciplinary field, the study of
groups of individuals acting collectively in ways that seem intelligent. Intelligence does not …

Wikipedia has been the poster child for large-scale online open collaboration while few
other online open collaboration initiatives have achieved similar success. How did …

Wikipedia has mobilized a collective of millions to produce an enormous, high-quality
encyclopedia without traditional hierarchical organization or financial incentives. More than …

Digital inequalities undermine the democratizing potential of the Internet. While many
people engage in public discourse through participatory media, knowledge gaps limit …

Increasingly, new forms of organizing for knowledge production are built around self-
organizing coproduction community models with ambiguous role definitions. Current …

The paper explores the motivations of volunteers in a large crowd sourcing project and
contributes to our understanding of the motivational factors that lead to deeper engagement …

Research on peer-production suggests that as participants choose what actions to perform,
prototypical activity patterns emerge. Recent work characterized these patterns and …

Research suggests that social network sites can support social capital exchanges, which are
often triggered by requests for assistance, such as seeking recommendations or asking for …

Online informal learning and knowledge-sharing platforms, such as Stack Exchange, Reddit,
and Wikipedia have been a great source of learning. Millions of people access these …

We present a theoretical foundation and empirical findings demonstrating the effectiveness
of personality-targeted design. Much like a medical treatment applied to a person based on …