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Assessing differential usage of usenet social accounting meta-data

A.J. Bernheim Brush, Xiaoqing Wang, Tammara Combs Turner, Marc A. Smith
2005 Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '05  

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We describe a usage study of Netscan\Tech, a system that generates and publishes daily a range of social metrics across three dimensions: newsgroup, author, and thread, for a set of approximately 15,000 technical newsgroups in Usenet. We bring together three interlinked datasets: survey data, usage log data and social accounting data from Usenet participation, to triangulate the relationship between various user roles and differential usage of social metrics in Netscan\Tech. We found our most
more » ... equent users focused on information related to individual authors far more than any other information provided. In contrast, users that visited less frequently focused more on information related to newsgroups and viewing newsgroup metrics. Our results suggest features that designers and developers of online communities may wish to include in their interfaces to support the cultivation of different community roles.
doi:10.1145/1054972.1055097 dblp:conf/chi/BrushWTS05 fatcat:uhof6wterzfedisterfrz5zm74
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A.J. Bernheim Brush, Xiaoqing Wang, Tammara Combs Turner, Marc A. Smith. "Assessing differential usage of usenet social accounting meta-data." Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '05 (2005) 889-898