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Stimulating Social Engagement in a Community Network
Overview One of the most challenging problems facing builders and facilitators of community networks is to create and sustain social engagement among members. This paper investigates the drivers of social engagement in a community network through the analysis of three data sources: activity logs, a member survey, and the content analysis of the conversation archives. The paper describes three important ways to encourage and support social engagement in online communities: through system design elements such as conversation channeling and event notification, by various selection criteria for community members, and through facilitation of specific kinds of discussion topics.
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery | File Format | |
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| Date Published | November 2002 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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