Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Reading Schedule

Introduction to Collaboration
Wednesday, Jan. 8
Introduction to the course
Friday, Jan. 10
Discussions: Amanda Menking Welcome to Wikipedia Brochure
    Chapter 12 - Community and Communication [from How Wikipedia Works by Ayers, Matthews and Yates. No Starch Press. 2008]
Who are Wikipedians: Newcomers and Veterans
Wednesday, Jan. 15
Discussions: Paymon Parsadmehr &
Prottush Hossain
Becoming Wikipedian: ... [Bryant, Forte, and Bruckman (2005) Becoming Wikipedian: Tranformation of Participation in a Collaborative Online Encyclopedia. in Proceedings of GROUP'05.]
  Kris Domingo &
Marissa Ho
Talk Before You Type: ... [Viegas, Wattenberg, Kriss, and van Ham (2007) Talk Before You Type: Coordination in Wikipedia. in Proceedings of HICSS.]
Friday, Jan. 17
Discussions: Stefan Song &
Paymon Parsadmehr
My Kind of People? ... [Antin (2011) My Kind of People? Perceptions About Wikipedia Contributors and Their Motivations. in Proceedings of CHI'11.]
  Marissa Ho &
Zach Balter
Tea & Sympathy: ... [Morgan, Bouterse, Stierch and Walls (2013) Tea & Sympathy: Crafting Positive New User Experiences on Wikipedia. in Proceedings of CSCW'13.]
Mind the Wikipedia Gender Gap
Wednesday, Jan. 22
Discussions: Zach Verbeck &
Zach Balter
The Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited: ... [Hill and Shaw (2013) The Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited: Characterizing Survey Response Bias with Propensity Score Estimation. PLoS ONE 8(6):e65782. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065782.]
    Nine out of ten Wikipedians continue to be men: Editor Survey [Posted by Ayush Khanna on April 27, 2012, WikiMedia Foundation Blog]
    Where Are the Women in Wikipedia? [Room for Debate (Opinion). New York Times, February 2, 2011]
  Andrew Le &
Mackenzie Yu
WP:Clubhouse? ... [Lam, Uduwage, Dong, Sen, Musicant, Terveen and Riedl and Louridas (2011) WP:Clubhouse? An Exploration of Wikipedia’s Gender Imbalance. in Proceedings of WikiSym'11.]
Friday, Jan. 24
Discussions: Duncan Ngo &
Augustus Yuan
Gender Differences in Wikipedia Editing [Antin, Yee, Cheshire and Nov (2011) Gender Differences in Wikipedia Editing. in Proceedings of WikiSym'11.]
  Noah Rajswing &
Kris Domingo
Conflict, Confidence, or Criticism: ... [Collier and Bear (2012) Conflict, Confidence, or Criticism: An Empirical Examination of the Gender Gap in Wikipedia. in Proceedings of CSCW'12.]
Coordination and Awareness in Wikipedia
Wednesday, Jan. 29
Discussions: Cory Chan &
Agustus Yuan
Hot off the Wiki: ... [Keegan, Gergle and Contractor (2012) Hot off the Wiki: Dynamics, Practices and Structures in Wikipedia's Coverage of the Tohoku Catastrophes. in Proceedings of WikiSym 2011.]
  Megan Taylor &
Paymon Parsadmehr
Project Talk ... [Morgan, Gilbert, McDonald and Zachry (2013) Project talk:Coordination work and group membership in WikiProjects. in Proceedings of WikiSym'13.]
Friday, Jan. 31
Discussions: Zach Verbeck &
Andrew Le
Visualizing Activity ... [Wattenberg, Viegas and Hollenbach (2008) Visualizing Activity on Wikipedia with Chromograms. in Proceedings of INTERACT'08.]
  Michael Gilbert Managing Complexity: ... [Gilbert, Morgan, McDonald and Zachry (2013) Managing complexity: Strategies for group awareness and coordinated action in Wikipedia. in Proceedings of WikiSym'13.]
Conflicts are Inevitable
Wednesday, Feb. 5
Discussions: Corey Chan &
Duncan Ngo
Studying Cooperation and Conflict ... [Viegas, Wattenberg and Dave (2004) Studying Cooperation and Conflict between Authors with history flow Visualizations. in Proceedings of CHI'04.]
  Noah Rajswing &
Stefan Song
The Work of Sustaining Order ... [Geiger and Ribes (2010) The Work of Sustaining Order in Wikipedia: The Banning of a Vandal. in Proceedings of CSCW'10.]
Friday, Feb. 7
Discussions Prottush Hossain &
Zach Verbeck
He Says, She Says: ... [Kittur, Suh, Pendleton and Chi (2007) He Says, She Says: Conflict and Coordination in Wikipedia. in Proceedings of CHI'07.]
  Megan Taylor &
Mackenzi Yu
Community, Consensus, Coercision, Control: ... [Kriplean, Beschastnikh, McDonald, and Golder (2007) Community, Consensus, Coercision, Control: CS*W or How Policy Mediates Mass Participation. in Proceedings of GROUP'07.]
Collective Decision Making
Wednesday, Feb. 12
Discussions: Jennifer Yoakum &
Kristoffer Domingo
A Jury of Your Peers: ... [Halfaker, Kittur, Kraut and Riedl (2009) A Jury of Your Peers: Quality Experience and Ownership in Wikipedia. in Proceedings of WikiSym'09.]
  Megan Taylor &
Marissa Ho
The Effects of Group Composition ... [Lam, Karim and Riedl (2010) The Effects of Group Composition on Decision Quality in a Social Production Community. in Proceedings of GROUP'10.]
Friday, Feb. 14
Discussions: Mackenzi Yu &
Marissa Ho
Beyond Notability. ... [Taraborelli and Ciampaglia (2007) Beyond Notability. Collective deliberation on content inclusion in Wikipedia. in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops SASOW'10.]
  Noah Rajswing &
Agustus Le
What Wikipedia Deletes: ... [West and Lee (2011) What Wikipedia Deletes: Characterizing Dangerous Collaborative Content. in Proceedings of WikiSym'11.]
Wednesday, Feb. 19
    Class Canceled for CSCW 2014, Baltimore, MD
Friday, Feb. 21
    Class Canceled for CSCW 2014, Baltimore, MD
Trust in Collaboration
Wednesday, Feb. 26
Discussions: Stefan Song &
Mackenzi Yu
Assigning Trust ... [Adler, Chatterjee, de Alfaro, Faella, Pye and Raman (2008) Assigning Trust to Wikipedia Content. in Proceedings of WikiSym'08.]
  Zach Balter &
Noah Rajswing
Lifting the Veil:... [Suh, Chi, Kittur and Pendleton (2008) Lifting the Veil: Improving Accountability and Social Transparency in Wikipedia with WikiDashboard. in Proceedings of CHI'08.]
    Can You Ever Trust ... [Kittur, Suh and Chi (2008) Can You Ever Trust a Wiki? Impacting Perceived Trustworthiness in Wikipedia. in Proceedings of CSCW'08.]
Friday, Feb. 28
Discussions: Andrew Le &
Duncan Ngo
User Contribution ... [Javanmardi, Ganjisaffar, Lopes and Baldi (2009) User Contribution and Trust in Wikipedia. in Proceedings of Collaborate Con 2009.]
  Paymon Parsadmehr &
Cory Chan
Trust in Wikipedia: ... [Lucassen and Schraagen (2010) Trust in Wikipedia: How Users Trust Information from an Unknown Source. in Proceedings of WICOW’10.]
Privilege Granting
Wed, March. 5
Discussions: Jennifer Yoakum &
Cory Chan
The Hidden Order ... [Viegas, Wattenberg and McKeon (2007) The Hidden Order of Wikipedia. in Proceedings of Proceedings of HCI International HCII'07.]
  Andrew Le &
Prottush Hossain
Mopping Up ... [Burke and Kraut (2008) Mopping Up: Modeling Wikipedia Promotion Decisions. in Proceedings of CSCW'08.]
Fri, Mar. 7
Discussions: Dr. Mark Zachry Collaborative Sensemaking. ... [Derthick, Tsao, Kriplean, Borning, Zachry and McDonald (2011) Collaborative Sensemaking during Admin Permission Granting in Wikipedia. in Proceedings of HCI International HCII'11.]
  Megan Taylor &
Agustus Yuan
Governance in Social Media: ... [Leskovec, Huttenlocher and Kleinberg (2010) Governance in Social Media: A Case Study of the Wikipedia Promotion Process. in Proceedings of ICWSM'10.]
Systems & Tools
Wed, Mar. 12
Discussions: Jennifer Yoakum &
Kristoffer Domingo
SuggestBot: ... [Cosley, Frankowski, Terveen and Riedl (2007) SuggestBot: Using Intelligent Task Routing to Help People Find Work in Wikipedia. in Proceedings of IUI'07.]
  Zach Verbeck &
Duncan Ngo
rv you're dumb ... [Ekstrand and Riedl (2009) rv you're dumb: Identifying Discarded Work in Wiki Article History. in Proceedings of WikiSym'09.]
Friday, Mar. 14
Discussions: Jennifer Yoakum &
Zach Balter
Coordinating Tasks ... [Krieger, Stark and Klemmer (2009) Coordinating Tasks on the Commons: Designing for Personal Goals, Expertise and Serendipity. in Proceedings of CHI'09.]
  Dr. McDonald Building for Social Translucence ... [McDonald, Gokhman and Zachry (2012) Building for Social Translucence: A Domain Analysis and Prototype System. in Proceedings of CSCW'12.]