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Motivated by Information: Information about Online Collective Action as an Incentive for Participation

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2009

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Proceedings of the 2009 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work

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Association for Computing Machinery

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This paper describes research focused on understanding the relationships between operational knowledge about how online collective action systems work and participation in those systems. Specifically, I use qualitative interviews to examine knowledge about online systems that form public goods, questioning whether the notions of public goods and social dilemmas are relevant and meaningful for individuals making real-world participation decisions. This paper also describes concurrent experimental research focused on exploring the relationship between knowledge about one's own and others' competence to contribute to collective goals as a factor in participation decisions.

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Antin, Judd (2009): Motivated by Information: Information about Online Collective Action as an Incentive for Participation. Proceedings of the 2009 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work. DOI: 10.1145/1531674.1531729. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 371–372. Sanibel Island, Florida, USA

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collective action , economics , incentives , competence , public goods , operational knowledge , social dilemmas , social psychology , motivation

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10.1145/1531674.1531729

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