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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…
The Remixing Dilemma: The Trade-off Between Generativity and Originality
Benjamin Mako Hill, Andrés Monroy-Hernández
In this paper we argue that there is a trade-off between generativity and originality in online communities that support open collaboration. We build on foundational theoretical wo…
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…