Motivating Invisible Contributions: Framing Volunteer Classification Design in a Fanfiction Repository

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dc.contributor.authorBullard, Julia
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-17T22:48:35Z
dc.date.available2023-03-17T22:48:35Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractContributions from the crowd are not just content-sustainable systems require ongoing behind-the-scenes infrastructural work. In this paper, I explore potential strategies for motivating volunteer contributions to large-scale collaborative projects when volunteer contributions are procedural in nature and largely invisible in the published project. I use a user-driven classification system for a large, established, and growing fanfiction collection as an example of a successful project of this type. I compare the challenges and possibilities to those established in the study of open source, wiki, and citizen science projects, which share with classification design a need for distributed human contributions to procedural tasks. Textual analysis of recruiting and training documents, informed by prolonged engagement in the community, reveals strategies that diverge from other HCI research on motivation, such as a focus on work rather than fun and insider rather than public recognition.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1145/2957276.2957295
dc.identifier.urihttps://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/4455
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work
dc.subjectuser contributions
dc.subjectinvisible work
dc.subjectclassification systems
dc.subjectmotivating volunteers
dc.subjectharry potter spoiler
dc.titleMotivating Invisible Contributions: Framing Volunteer Classification Design in a Fanfiction Repositoryen
dc.typeText/Conference Paper
gi.citation.startPage181–193
gi.conference.locationSanibel Island, Florida, USA

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