TY - CHAP
T1 - Being present in online communities
T2 - 7th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, C and T 2015
AU - Mugar, Gabriel
AU - Jackson, Corey Brian
AU - Østerlund, Carsten
AU - Crowston, Kevin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2015 ACM.
PY - 2015/6/27
Y1 - 2015/6/27
N2 - How online community members learn to become valuable contributors constitutes a long-standing concern of Community & Technology researchers. The literature tends to highlight participants' acceb to practice, feedback from experienced members, and relationship building. However, not all crowdsourcing environments offer participants opportunities for acceb, feedback, and relationship building (e.g., Citizen Science). We study how volunteers learn to participate in a citizen science project, Planet Hunters, through participant observation, interviews, and trace ethnography. Drawing on Sørensen's sociomaterial theories of presence, we extend the notion of situated learning to include several modes of learning. The empirical findings suggest that volunteers in citizen science engage more than one form of acceb to practice, feedback, and relationship building. Communal relations characterize only one form of learning. Equally important to their learning are authority-subject and agent-centered forms of acceb, feedback, and relationship building.
AB - How online community members learn to become valuable contributors constitutes a long-standing concern of Community & Technology researchers. The literature tends to highlight participants' acceb to practice, feedback from experienced members, and relationship building. However, not all crowdsourcing environments offer participants opportunities for acceb, feedback, and relationship building (e.g., Citizen Science). We study how volunteers learn to participate in a citizen science project, Planet Hunters, through participant observation, interviews, and trace ethnography. Drawing on Sørensen's sociomaterial theories of presence, we extend the notion of situated learning to include several modes of learning. The empirical findings suggest that volunteers in citizen science engage more than one form of acceb to practice, feedback, and relationship building. Communal relations characterize only one form of learning. Equally important to their learning are authority-subject and agent-centered forms of acceb, feedback, and relationship building.
KW - Citizen science
KW - Situated learning
KW - Sociomateriality
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U2 - 10.1145/2768545.2768555
DO - 10.1145/2768545.2768555
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
AN - SCOPUS:84956693053
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 129
EP - 138
BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Communities and Technologies
A2 - de Cindio, Fiorella
A2 - Avram, Gabriela
A2 - Pipek, Volkmar
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 27 June 2015 through 30 June 2015
ER -