Experimenting With Online Governance
To solve the problems they face, online communities adopt comprehensive governance methods including committees, boards, juries, and even more complex institutional logics. Helping these kinds of communities succeed will require categorizing best practices and creating toolboxes that fit the needs o...
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| description | To solve the problems they face, online communities adopt comprehensive governance methods including committees, boards, juries, and even more complex institutional logics. Helping these kinds of communities succeed will require categorizing best practices and creating toolboxes that fit the needs of specific communities. Beyond such applied uses, there is also a potential for an institutional logic itself to evolve, taking advantage of feedback provided by the fast pace and large ecosystem of online communication. Here, we outline an experimental strategy aiming at guiding and facilitating such an evolution. We first review the advantages of studying collective action using recent technologies for efficiently orchestrating massive online experiments. Research in this vein includes attempts to understand how behavior spreads, how cooperation evolves, and how the wisdom of the crowd can be improved. We then present the potential usefulness of developing virtual-world experiments with governance for improving the utility of social feedback. Such experiments can be used for improving community rating systems and monitoring (dashboard) systems. Finally, we present a framework for constructing large-scale experiments entirely in virtual worlds, aimed at capturing the complexity of governance dynamics, to empirically test outcomes of manipulating institutional logic. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7a43baeb56c640d39d3a187a82d690772022-12-21T19:51:21ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Human Dynamics2673-27262021-04-01310.3389/fhumd.2021.629285629285Experimenting With Online GovernanceOfer Tchernichovski0Seth Frey1Nori Jacoby2Dalton Conley3Department of Psychology, Hunter College, The City University of New York, New York, NY, United StatesDepartment of Communication, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United StatesResearch Group Computational Auditory Perception, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, GermanyPrinceton and National Bureau of Economic Research, Department of Sociology and Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United StatesTo solve the problems they face, online communities adopt comprehensive governance methods including committees, boards, juries, and even more complex institutional logics. Helping these kinds of communities succeed will require categorizing best practices and creating toolboxes that fit the needs of specific communities. Beyond such applied uses, there is also a potential for an institutional logic itself to evolve, taking advantage of feedback provided by the fast pace and large ecosystem of online communication. Here, we outline an experimental strategy aiming at guiding and facilitating such an evolution. We first review the advantages of studying collective action using recent technologies for efficiently orchestrating massive online experiments. Research in this vein includes attempts to understand how behavior spreads, how cooperation evolves, and how the wisdom of the crowd can be improved. We then present the potential usefulness of developing virtual-world experiments with governance for improving the utility of social feedback. Such experiments can be used for improving community rating systems and monitoring (dashboard) systems. Finally, we present a framework for constructing large-scale experiments entirely in virtual worlds, aimed at capturing the complexity of governance dynamics, to empirically test outcomes of manipulating institutional logic.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fhumd.2021.629285/fullonline governancecrowd wisdomcooperationcostly signalingcollective actionvirtual worlds |
| spellingShingle | Ofer Tchernichovski Seth Frey Nori Jacoby Dalton Conley Experimenting With Online Governance Frontiers in Human Dynamics online governance crowd wisdom cooperation costly signaling collective action virtual worlds |
| title | Experimenting With Online Governance |
| title_full | Experimenting With Online Governance |
| title_fullStr | Experimenting With Online Governance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Experimenting With Online Governance |
| title_short | Experimenting With Online Governance |
| title_sort | experimenting with online governance |
| topic | online governance crowd wisdom cooperation costly signaling collective action virtual worlds |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fhumd.2021.629285/full |
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