Latent Users in an Online User-Generated Content Community

dc.contributor.authorVelasquez, Alcides
dc.contributor.authorWash, Rick
dc.contributor.authorLampe, Cliff
dc.contributor.authorBjornrud, Tor
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-06T13:06:46Z
dc.date.available2020-06-06T13:06:46Z
dc.date.issued41671
dc.description.abstractOnline communities depend on the persistent contributions of heterogeneous users with diverse motivations and ways of participating. As these online communities exist over time, it is possible that users change the way in which they contribute to the site. Through interviews with 31 long-term members of a user-generated content community who have decreased their participation on the site, we examined the meaning that these users gave to their contribution and how their new participation patterns related to their initial motivations. We complement the reader-to-leader framework (Preece and Shneiderman: AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction , vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 13–32, 2009 ) by propounding the concept of latent user to understand decreasing content contribution and user life-cycles in online communities. We showed that even though latent users decrease their content contribution, their participation becomes more selective and remained consistent with initial motivations to participate.de
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10606-013-9188-4
dc.identifier.pissn1573-7551
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10606-013-9188-4
dc.identifier.urihttps://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/3875
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.ispartofComputer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): Vol. 23, No. 1
dc.relation.ispartofseriesComputer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
dc.subjectcontent contribution in online communities
dc.subjectlatent users
dc.subjectmotivations to contribute
dc.subjectonline communities
dc.subjectonline participation
dc.subjectreader-to-leader framework
dc.titleLatent Users in an Online User-Generated Content Communityde
dc.typeText/Journal Article
gi.citation.endPage50
gi.citation.startPage21

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