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The Most Important Laboratory for Social Scientific and Computing Research in History
Benjamin Mako Hill, Aaron Shaw
Wikipedia's founders could not have dreamed they were creating the most important laboratory for social scientific and computing research in history but that is exactly what happen…
The Hidden Costs of Requiring Accounts: Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Peer Production
Benjamin Mako Hill, Aaron Shaw
Online communities, like Wikipedia, produce valuable public information goods. Whereas some of these communities require would-be contributors to create accounts, many do not. Does…
How individual behaviors drive inequality in online community sizes: an agent-based simulation
Jeremy Foote, Nathan TeBlunthuis, Benjamin Mako Hill +1
Why are online community sizes so extremely unequal? Most answers to this question have pointed to general mathematical processes drawn from physics like cumulative advantage. Thes…
Black Lives Matter in Wikipedia: Collaboration and Collective Memory around Online Social Movements
Marlon Twyman, Brian C. Keegan, Aaron Shaw
Social movements use social computing systems to complement offline mobilizations, but prior literature has focused almost exclusively on movement actors' use of social media. In t…
Laboratories of Oligarchy? How the Iron Law Extends to Peer Production
Aaron Shaw, Benjamin Mako Hill
Peer production projects like Wikipedia have inspired voluntary associations, collectives, social movements, and scholars to embrace open online collaboration as a model of democra…
WeDo: Exploring Participatory, End-To-End Collective Action
Haoqi Zhang, Andes Monroy-Hernandez, Aaron Shaw +6
Many celebrate the Internet's ability to connect individuals and facilitate collective action toward a common goal. While numerous systems have been designed to support particular…