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 …

Understanding how people use technology remains important, particularly when measuring
the impact this might have on individuals and society. However, despite a growing body of …

Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL offers backgrounds in information studies,
computer science, and sociology. This book is divided into three parts: analyzing social …

Using a longitudinal in-depth field study at NASA, I investigate how the open, or peer-
production, innovation model affects R&D professionals, their work, and the locus of …

Participants in online communities often enact different roles when participating in their
communities. For example, some in cancer support communities specialize in providing …

Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Web, with millions of users relying on it to
satisfy a broad range of information needs every day. Although it is crucial to understand …

Open Source Software (OSS) development is a collaborative endeavor where expert
developers, distributed around the globe create software solutions. Given this characteristic …

User-generated content (UGC) projects involve large numbers of mostly unpaid contributors
collaborating to create content. Motivation for such contributions has been an active area of …

As one of the Web's primary multilingual knowledge sources, Wikipedia is read by millions of
people across the globe every day. Despite this global readership, little is known about why …

Content gaps in knowledge graphs impact downstream applications. Semantic Web
researchers have studied them mainly in relation to data quality or ontology evaluation, for …