Just a reminder, that this will be starting in about 24 minutes. On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 6:01 PM Martin Gerlach <mgerl...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi all, > The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, January 20, > at 9:30 AM PST/17:30 UTC. In this month’s showcase, Aaron Shaw will > present ongoing research illustrating the values and challenges of > macro-level organizational analysis of peer production and social computing > systems. Specifically, he will give an overview on different studies > showing convergent trends of formalization in large Wikipedias; divergent > editor engagement in small Wikipedias; and commensal patterns of ecological > interdependence across communities. > > Youtube stream: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Wcc-TeaEY> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujd8S82YfmA > > As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You > can also watch our past research showcases here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase > > > > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase>*Speaker*: > Aaron Shaw (Northwestern University) > *Title*: The importance of thinking big. Convergence, divergence, and > interdependence among wikis and peer production communities > *Abstract*: Designing and governing collaborative, peer production > communities can benefit from large-scale, macro-level thinking that focuses > on communities as the units of analysis. For example, understanding how and > why seemingly comparable communities may follow convergent, divergent, > and/or interdependent patterns of behavior can inform more parsimonious > theoretical and empirical insights as well as more effective strategic > action. This talk gives a sneak peak at research-in-progress by members of > the Community Data Science Collective <http://communitydata.science/> to > illustrate these points. In particular, I focus on studies of (1) > convergent trends of formalization in several large Wikipedias; (2) > divergent editor engagement among three small Wikipedias; and (3) commensal > patterns of ecological interdependence across communities. Together, the > studies underscore the value and challenges of macro-level organizational > analysis of peer production and social computing systems. > > > -- > Martin Gerlach > Research Scientist > Wikimedia Foundation > -- Martin Gerlach Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation
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