TY - GEN
T1 - Learning with comments
T2 - 53rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2020
AU - Sengupta, Subhasree
AU - Haythornthwaite, Caroline
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Stack Overflow (SO) has become a primary source for learning, how to code, with community features supporting asking and answering questions, upvoting to signify approval of content, and comments to extend questions and answers. While past research has considered the value of posts, often based on upvoting, little has examined the role of comments. Beyond value in explaining code, comments may offer new ways of looking at problems, clarifications of questions or answers, and socially supportive community interactions. To understand the role of comments, a content analysis was conducted to evaluate the key purposes of comments. a coding schema of nine comment categories was developed from open coding on a set of 40 posts and used to classify comments in a larger dataset of 2323 comments from 50 threads over a 6-month period. Results provide insight into the way the comments support learning, knowledge development, and the SO community, and the use and usefulness of the comment feature.
AB - Stack Overflow (SO) has become a primary source for learning, how to code, with community features supporting asking and answering questions, upvoting to signify approval of content, and comments to extend questions and answers. While past research has considered the value of posts, often based on upvoting, little has examined the role of comments. Beyond value in explaining code, comments may offer new ways of looking at problems, clarifications of questions or answers, and socially supportive community interactions. To understand the role of comments, a content analysis was conducted to evaluate the key purposes of comments. a coding schema of nine comment categories was developed from open coding on a set of 40 posts and used to classify comments in a larger dataset of 2323 comments from 50 threads over a 6-month period. Results provide insight into the way the comments support learning, knowledge development, and the SO community, and the use and usefulness of the comment feature.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85095113644
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 2898
EP - 2907
BT - Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2020
A2 - Bui, Tung X.
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 7 January 2020 through 10 January 2020
ER -