Barry P.,Dekel U., Moraveji N., Weisz J., 2003

Increasing contribution in online communities

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~jweisz/papers/F03/cscw.pdf

Our goal is to increase contributions to an online community by making information about the level of activity in the community salient to its members. We specifically focus on the LiveJournal web log community, where a user’s community is defined by their personal list of friends, and contributions are made by either posting new content to one’s own journal, or by commenting on existing journal entries. Our theory-based approach to increasing contributions is discussed in depth, along with results from an experiment designed to measure the effectiveness of various activity level displays…