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From Hanging Out to Figuring It Out: Socializing Online as a Pathway to Computational Thinking
Samantha Shorey, Benjamin Mako Hill, Samuel C. Woolley
Although socializing is a powerful driver of youth engagement online, platforms struggle to leverage engagement to promote learning. We seek to understand this dynamic using a mult…
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…
Taboo and Collaborative Knowledge Production: Evidence from Wikipedia
Kaylea Champion, Benjamin Mako Hill
By definition, people are reticent or even unwilling to talk about taboo subjects. Because subjects like sexuality, health, and violence are taboo in most cultures, important infor…
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…
A longitudinal dataset of five years of public activity in the Scratch online community
Benjamin Mako Hill, Andrés Monroy-Hernández
Scratch is a programming environment and an online community where young people can create, share, learn, and communicate. In collaboration with the Scratch Team at MIT, we created…
The Cost of Collaboration for Code and Art: Evidence from a Remixing Community
Benjamin Mako Hill, Andrés Monroy-Hernández
In this paper, we use evidence from a remixing community to evaluate two pieces of common wisdom about collaboration. First, we test the theory that jointly produced works tend to…