Predicting Continued Participation in Newsgroups

By Elisabeth Joyce, Robert E. Kraut. 2006

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Averaging Gone Wrong: Using Time-Aware Analyses to Better Understand Behavior (2016, background): “The existing voting data might be much more useful, however, in addressing questions that involve predicting a given user’s future behavior based on how other users respond to a user’s early contributions [29,61].”
Content or Community? A Digital Business Strategy for Content Providers in the Social Age (2013, background): “Joyce and Kraut (2006) showed how a user's likelihood of posting is related to the properties of the replies he receives in response to his initial posting.”
Social Barriers Faced by Newcomers Placing Their First Contribution in Open Source Software Projects (2015, background): “Joyce and Kraut [41] also analyzed Usenet communities and reported that newcomers were more likely to receive a response if they asked a question or wrote a longer post.”
Knowledge sharing and yahoo answers: everyone knows something (2008, positive): “Using message level content analysis, Joyce and Kraut [2] [9] studied whether the formulation of a newcomer's post and related responses influenced whether they continue to participate.”
Knowledge Collaboration in Online Communities (2011, background): “Particularly for a new entrant to a community, the lack of response to an idea may suppress future participation (Joyce and Kraut 2006).”
Feed me: motivating newcomer contribution in social network sites (2009, background): “in Slashdot [37] or discussion groups [34]).”
Political Communication and Influence through Microblogging--An Empirical Analysis of Sentiment in Twitter Messages and Retweet Behavior (2012, background): “Results from a study of online interactions [22] suggested that negative affect of messages can actually trigger participation.”
Emotions and Information Diffusion in Social Media—Sentiment of Microblogs and Sharing Behavior (2013, background): “, [38]), and social sharing behavior (e.”
Understanding the appeal of user-generated media: a uses and gratification perspective (2009, background): “This can partly be explained by the reinforcement model, which predicts that people repeat actions that lead to positive reinforcements (Joyce and Kraut, 2006).”
4chan and /b/: An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in a Large Online Community (2011, result): “This 43% figure is roughly consistent with Usenet, where 40% of posts get no reply (Joyce and Kraut 2006).”
Relationships in online communities: the potential for marketers (2010, background): “The development over time and participation reinforces a sense of community as contributors get positive reinforcement ( Joyce and Kraut, 2006”
Network Exchange Patterns in Online Communities (2011, background): “Organization Science Page 4 communities are more likely to continue participating if they receive a response to their initial post, irrespective of the quality and emotional tone of the response (Joyce and Kraut 2006).”
Dimensions of leadership and social influence in online communities (2010, background): “…content from Google Groups for a random subset of 99 groups from the total Netscan Human Communication Research 36 (2010) 593–617 © 2010 International Communication Association 599 Online Leaders and Social Influence D. Huffaker data, ranging from June 2003 to January 2005 (Joyce & Kraut, 2006).”