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Social Performances: Understanding the Motivations for Online Participatory Behavior

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Open contribution systems" (OCS) are online applications that encourage users to contribute and share content in a "public" and open manner. While these systems lower the barriers to participating, what is less clear is why users are motivated to contribute time and effort in these online environments with relative strangers. My dissertation proposes that one way to explain high levels of participation on OCS is to use the lens of social performances. This lens suggests that individual participation on social software websites involves elements of both individual and collective performative behavior. The social performance framework suggests that the participatory behavior is part of a larger sensemaking exercise that rationalizes and aligns individual contributions to the collective effort. The view here is that OCS and its users are part of a socio-technical ecology and are mutually dependent on each other. Understanding participation as a form of social performance can enable us to better design systems that encourage participation, collaboration and sharing."

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Yew, Jude (2009): Social Performances: Understanding the Motivations for Online Participatory Behavior. Proceedings of the 2009 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work. DOI: 10.1145/1531674.1531742. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 397–398. Sanibel Island, Florida, USA

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motivations, creative commons, social network analysis, participation, open contribution systems

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