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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series

Starts:16:00 27 Nov 2019
Ends:17:30 27 Nov 2019
What is it:Seminar
Organiser:School of Social Sciences
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Jürgen Lerner, University of Konstanz

How to get work done online: network analysis of open peer-production

Recent decades have witnessed the emergence of open peer-production in which voluntary participants contribute time and effort to create public goods. Successful examples include open source software, like the Linux operating system, or the user-generated encyclopedia Wikipedia. At its beginning, self-organizing large-scale collaboration seemed puzzling: why should anyone participate in the absence of direct monetary rewards, how do teams coordinate and control work in the near-absence of any predefined organizational structure, and which factors explain product quality. In this talk we claim that such questions can be tackled by analyzing networks of task-oriented interaction among participants. Using large scale data from Wikipedia, we demonstrate that the structure of dispute-resolution networks can explain article quality and that network effects shape participants' decisions to contribute to specific projects.

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