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Investigating Collaboration Within Online Communities: Software Development vs. Artistic Creation
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2018
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Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work
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Association for Computing Machinery
Abstract
Online creative communities have been able to develop large, open source software (OSS) projects like Linux and Firefox throughout the successful collaborations carried out over the Internet. These communities have also expanded to creative arts domains such as animation, video games, and music. Despite their growing popularity, the factors that lead to successful collaborations in these communities are not entirely understood. In the following, I describe my Ph.D. research project aimed at improving communication, collaboration, and retention in creative arts communities, starting from the experience gained from the literature about OSS communities.