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Stimulating social engagement in a community network
2002
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work - CSCW '02
One of the most challenging problems facing builders and facilitators of community networks is to create and sustain social engagement among members. In this paper, we investigate the drivers of social engagement in a community network through the analysis of three data sources: activity logs, a member survey, and the content analysis of the conversation archives. We describe three important ways to encourage and support social engagement in online communities: through system design elements
doi:10.1145/587119.587121
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