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Community Identity and User Engagement in a Multi-Community Landscape
Justine Zhang, William L. Hamilton, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil +2
A community's identity defines and shapes its internal dynamics. Our current understanding of this interplay is mostly limited to glimpses gathered from isolated studies of individ…
Tracing the Use of Practices through Networks of Collaboration
Rahmtin Rotabi, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Jon Kleinberg
An active line of research has used on-line data to study the ways in which discrete units of information---including messages, photos, product recommendations, group invitations--…
Competition and Selection Among Conventions
Rahmtin Rotabi, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Jon Kleinberg
In many domains, a latent competition among different conventions determines which one will come to dominate. One sees such effects in the success of community jargon, of competing…
Loyalty in Online Communities
William L. Hamilton, Justine Zhang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil +2
Loyalty is an essential component of multi-community engagement. When users have the choice to engage with a variety of different communities, they often become loyal to just one,…
Anyone Can Become a Troll: Causes of Trolling Behavior in Online Discussions
Justin Cheng, Michael Bernstein, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil +1
In online communities, antisocial behavior such as trolling disrupts constructive discussion. While prior work suggests that trolling behavior is confined to a vocal and antisocial…