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Many Destinations, Many Pathways: A Quantitative Analysis of Legitimate Peripheral Participation in Scratch
Ruijia Cheng, Benjamin Mako Hill
Although informal online learning communities have proliferated over the last two decades, a fundamental question remains: What are the users of these communities expected to learn…
How Interest-Driven Content Creation Shapes Opportunities for Informal Learning in Scratch: A Case Study on Novices' Use of Data Structures
Ruijia Cheng, Sayamindu Dasgupta, Benjamin Mako Hill
Through a mixed-method analysis of data from Scratch, we examine how novices learn to program with simple data structures by using community-produced learning resources. First, we…
The Risks, Benefits, and Consequences of Prepublication Moderation: Evidence from 17 Wikipedia Language Editions
Chau Tran, Kaylea Champion, Benjamin Mako Hill +1
Many online communities rely on postpublication moderation where contributors, even those that are perceived as being risky, are allowed to publish material immediately and where m…
Identifying Competition and Mutualism Between Online Groups
Nathan TeBlunthuis, Benjamin Mako Hill
Platforms often host multiple online groups with overlapping topics and members. How can researchers and designers understand how related groups affect each other? Inspired by popu…
Designing for Critical Algorithmic Literacies
Sayamindu Dasgupta, Benjamin Mako Hill
As pervasive data collection and powerful algorithms increasingly shape children's experience of the world and each other, their ability to interrogate computational algorithms has…
Scratch Community Blocks: Supporting Children as Data Scientists
Sayamindu Dasgupta, Benjamin Mako Hill
In this paper, we present Scratch Community Blocks, a new system that enables children to programmatically access, analyze, and visualize data about their participation in Scratch,…
Surviving an "Eternal September" - How an Online Community Managed a Surge of Newcomers
Charles Kiene, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Benjamin Mako Hill
We present a qualitative analysis of interviews with participants in the NoSleep community within Reddit where millions of fans and writers of horror fiction congregate. We explore…
Computers Can't Give Credit: How Automatic Attribution Falls Short in an Online Remixing Community
Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Benjamin Mako Hill, Jazmin Gonzalez-Rivero +1
In this paper, we explore the role that attribution plays in shaping user reactions to content reuse, or remixing, in a large user-generated content community. We present two studi…
Responses to remixing on a social media sharing website
Benjamin Mako Hill, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Kristina R. Olson
In this paper we describe the ways participants of the Scratch online community, primarily young people, engage in remixing of each others' shared animations, games, and interactiv…