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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Peer production"”.
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Essays on volunteer mobilization in peer production
… some examples of Internet-based collaborative "peer production" -- like Wikipedia and Linux -- build large volunteer communities and high-quality information goods, the vast majority of attempts at peer production never even attract a second contributor. This dissertation is composed of three …
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Individual and social motivations to contribute to commons-based peer production.
… Internet users to contribute to commons-based peer production. The study combines the literature of volunteerism, uses and gratifications, and social identity theory as the theoretical framework. Findings from the preliminary in-depth interviews were combined with that of prior literatures to …
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Peer Produced Peer Learning: A Mathematics Case Study
… intervention intended to transform a peer produced reference resource into a peer produced learning environment. Through the work described in this thesis, PlanetMath.org, an early online community devoted to mathematics, has now become a mathematical practicum, and a laboratory for …
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The Piratical Ethos: Textual Activity and Intellectual Property in Digital Environments
… in contexts of electronically mediated social production. With a focus on immaterial production - or the forms of coordinated social activity employed to produce knowledge and information in the networked information economy - this project ultimately aims to demonstrate how current intellectual …
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An Architecture for Collaborative Math and Science Digital Libraries
… Noosphere, a system for the collaborative production of digital libraries. Further, I describe the special features of Noosphere which allow it to support mathematical and scientific content, and how it applies an encyclopedic organizational style. I also describe how Noosphere frees the …
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Encounters with Authority: Tactics and negotiations at the periphery of participatory platforms
… projects that engage volunteers in the production of scientific knowledge create easy points of entry to make contributions. These low barriers to entry are a hallmark feature in digital participatory labor, limiting the number of hoops a new volunteer has to jump through before they can …
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Participants' motivations to contribute geographic information in an online community
… outline its implications for expert-oriented production and propose a hybrid model for spatial data infrastructure. I find this topic interesting particularly because it defies the traditional mode and offers a new mode of production and use of geographic information. The dissertation uses a …
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A framework for analyzing the sustainability of peer produced science commons
… those models differ between domains of knowledge production. The relationship between sustainability, cooperation, and governance is explored through two sets of studies: - A longitudinal case study of the International Comprehensive Ocean and Atmosphere (ICOADS), a collaborative project in …
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Rethinking U.S. education policy: four paradigms of the knowledge economy
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