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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…
No Community Can Do Everything: Why People Participate in Similar Online Communities
Nathan TeBlunthuis, Charles Kiene, Isabella Brown +3
Large-scale quantitative analyses have shown that individuals frequently talk to each other about similar things in different online spaces. Why do these overlapping communities ex…
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…