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New members' online socialization in online communities: The effects of content quality and feedback on new members' content-sharing intentions
2014
Computers in Human Behavior
Online communities' viability and success are dependent on current members' active participation and content contribution, as well as on the sustainable community registration of new members. Based on the member-life cycle perspective, this study attempted to discover mechanisms that might be employed to increase new members' community participation. This study focused on user-generated content (UGC) sharing. The results of this study suggest that UGC quality gaps that exist between current and
doi:10.1016/j.chb.2013.09.015
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