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Zhan, Zehui; Mei, Hu; Liang, Ting; Huo, Liming; Bonk, Curtis; Hu, Qintai – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of material incentives on the knowledge-sharing networks and information lifecycles of a public online forum. The users' interaction data were collected from two similar sub-forums, and one of them provided material incentives for sharing knowledge. After collecting user behaviors for one natural…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Incentives, Networks, Computer Mediated Communication
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Cheshire, Coye – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2007
The goal of this research is to understand how generalized exchange systems emerge when information, as the object of exchange, produces a collective good. When individuals contribute information for a collective benefit, it can create a group-generalized exchange system that involves a social dilemma. I argue that two properties of information,…
Descriptors: Sharing Behavior, Social Psychology, Access to Information, Information Networks