Scientific Foundations: A Case for Technology- Mediated Social- Participation Theory

Technology-mediated social-participation systems, such as Wikipedia and TopCoder, allow a vast user base to collaborate to solve difficult problems. TMSP could be applied to many current social issues, but doing so requires new theory and infrastructure for social design.

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Main Authors: Kraut, Robert, Maher, Mary Lou, Olson, Judith, Malone, Thomas W., Pirolli, Peter, Thomas, John C.
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IEEE Computer Society 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70850
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spelling mit-1721.1/708502022-10-01T00:40:59Z Scientific Foundations: A Case for Technology- Mediated Social- Participation Theory Kraut, Robert Maher, Mary Lou Olson, Judith Malone, Thomas W. Pirolli, Peter Thomas, John C. Sloan School of Management Malone, Thomas W. Malone, Thomas W. Technology-mediated social-participation systems, such as Wikipedia and TopCoder, allow a vast user base to collaborate to solve difficult problems. TMSP could be applied to many current social issues, but doing so requires new theory and infrastructure for social design. 2012-05-16T19:14:41Z 2012-05-16T19:14:41Z 2010-11 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0018-9162 INSPEC Accession Number: 11637778 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70850 Kraut, R et al. “Scientific Foundations: A Case for Technology- Mediated Social- Participation Theory.” Computer 43.11 (2010): 22–28. Web.© 2010 IEEE. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7005-1482 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MC.2010.324 Computer Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf IEEE Computer Society IEEE
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