Hello all, Just a reminder that the Research Showcase (info below) will be this Wednesday.
On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 3:04 PM, Janna Layton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, October > 17, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC. > > YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJrJLWuNvXo > > As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You > can also watch our past research showcases here: https://www.mediawiki.or > g/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase > > This month's presentation: > > *"Welcome" Changes? Descriptive and Injunctive Norms in a Wikipedia > Sub-Community* > > *By Jonathan T. Morgan, Wikimedia Foundation and Anna Filippova, GitHub* > > Open online communities rely on social norms for behavior regulation, > group cohesion, and sustainability. Research on the role of social norms > online has mainly focused on one source of influence at a time, making it > difficult to separate different normative influences and understand their > interactions. In this study, we use the Focus Theory to examine > interactions between several sources of normative influence in a Wikipedia > sub-community: local descriptive norms, local injunctive norms, and norms > imported from similar sub- communities. We find that exposure to injunctive > norms has a stronger effect than descriptive norms, that the likelihood of > performing a behavior is higher when both injunctive and descriptive norms > are congruent, and that conflicting social norms may negatively impact > pro-normative behavior. We contextualize these findings through member > interviews, and discuss their implications for both future research on > normative influence in online groups and the design of systems that support > open collaboration. > > > *The pipeline of online participation inequalities: The case of Wikipedia > Editing* > > *By Aaron Shaw, Northwestern University and Eszter Hargittai, University > of Zurich* > > Participatory platforms like the Wikimedia projects have unique potential > to facilitate more equitable knowledge production. However, digital > inequalities such as the Wikipedia gender gap undermine this democratizing > potential. In this talk, I present new research in which Eszter Hargittai > and I conceptualize a "pipeline" of online participation and model distinct > levels of awareness and behaviors necessary to become a contributor to the > participatory web. We test the theory in the case of Wikipedia editing, > using new survey data from a diverse, national sample of adult internet > users in the U.S. > > The results show that Wikipedia participation consistently reflects > inequalities of education and internet experiences and skills. We find that > the gender gap only emerges later in the pipeline whereas gaps along racial > and socioeconomic lines explain variations earlier in the pipeline. Our > findings underscore the multidimensionality of digital inequalities and > suggest new pathways toward closing knowledge gaps by highlighting the > importance of education and Internet skills. > > We conclude that future research and interventions to overcome digital > participation gaps should not focus exclusively on gender or class > differences in content creation, but expand to address multiple aspects of > digital inequality across pipelines of participation. In particular, when > it comes to overcoming gender gaps in the case of Wikipedia, our results > suggest that continued emphasis on recruiting female editors should include > efforts to disseminate the knowledge that Wikipedia can be edited. Our > findings support broader efforts to overcome knowledge- and skill-based > barriers to entry among potential contributors to the open web. > > > -- > Janna Layton > Administrative Assistant - Audiences & Technology > > Wikimedia Foundation > 1 Montgomery St. Suite 1600 > San Francisco, CA 94104 > -- Janna Layton Administrative Assistant - Audiences & Technology Wikimedia Foundation 1 Montgomery St. Suite 1600 San Francisco, CA 94104
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