TY - GEN
T1 - On the "how" and "why" of emergent role behaviors in Wikipedia
AU - Arazy, Ofer
AU - Lifshitz-Assaf, Hila
AU - Nov, Oded
AU - Daxenberger, Johannes
AU - Balestra, Martina
AU - Cheshire, Coye
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017 ACM.
PY - 2017/2/25
Y1 - 2017/2/25
N2 - Research on peer-production suggests that as participants choose what actions to perform, prototypical activity patterns emerge. Recent work characterized these patterns and demonstrated that informal emergent roles are highly stable. Nonetheless, we know little about the ways in which contributors take on and shed emergent roles. The objectives of this study are to: (a) delineate the temporal dynamics of participants' emergent role taking behaviors, and (b) identify the motivations driving role-transition behaviors. Our study links motivation to role-transition behaviors within Wikipedia. Our first sample covered eleven years and 222,119 contributors, and was used to identify four categories of temporal role-taking behaviors, that differ in their mobility between emergent roles and across Wikipedia articles. Our second examination linked the motivations of 175 new participants to their subsequent role-taking activity over 14 months. Together, the two analyses reveal that role-taking categories can be distinguished based on participants' motivational orientation (intrinsic/extrinsic and self/others-oriented).
AB - Research on peer-production suggests that as participants choose what actions to perform, prototypical activity patterns emerge. Recent work characterized these patterns and demonstrated that informal emergent roles are highly stable. Nonetheless, we know little about the ways in which contributors take on and shed emergent roles. The objectives of this study are to: (a) delineate the temporal dynamics of participants' emergent role taking behaviors, and (b) identify the motivations driving role-transition behaviors. Our study links motivation to role-transition behaviors within Wikipedia. Our first sample covered eleven years and 222,119 contributors, and was used to identify four categories of temporal role-taking behaviors, that differ in their mobility between emergent roles and across Wikipedia articles. Our second examination linked the motivations of 175 new participants to their subsequent role-taking activity over 14 months. Together, the two analyses reveal that role-taking categories can be distinguished based on participants' motivational orientation (intrinsic/extrinsic and self/others-oriented).
KW - Emergent roles
KW - Motivation
KW - Online production communities
KW - Role mobility
KW - Role-taking
KW - Wikipedia
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85014771074&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998317
DO - https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998317
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 2039
EP - 2051
BT - CSCW 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2017
Y2 - 25 February 2017 through 1 March 2017
ER -