"What i know is...": establishing credibility on Wikipedia talk pages
Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Finding social roles in Wikipedia
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
'The internet is here': emergent coordination and innovation of protest forms in digital culture
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
The role of argumentation in online epistemic communities: the anatomy of a conflict in Wikipedia
Proceedings of the 28th Annual European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics
Co-authorship 2.0: patterns of collaboration in Wikipedia
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Breaking news on wikipedia: dynamics, structures, and roles in high-tempo collaboration
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion
We don't need no stinkin' badges: examining the social role of badges in the Huffington Post
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Building a role search engine for social media
Proceedings of the 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web
Democratizing ubiquitous computing: a right for locality
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Behaviour analysis across different types of enterprise online communities
Proceedings of the 3rd Annual ACM Web Science Conference
International Journal of Web Based Communities
Ontology paper: Community analysis through semantic rules and role composition derivation
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Dynamic targeting in an online social medium
SocInfo'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Social Informatics
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Emergent roles in decision-making tasks using group chat
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Extracting Celebrities from Online Discussions
ASONAM '12 Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012)
Staying in the loop: structure and dynamics of Wikipedia's breaking news collaborations
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
Analyzing multi-dimensional networks within MediaWikis
Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Open Collaboration
Discovering content-based behavioral roles in social networks
Decision Support Systems
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Both online and off, people frequently perform particular social roles. These roles organize behavior and give structure to positions in local networks. As more of social life becomes embedded in online systems, the concept of social role becomes increasingly valuable as a tool for simplifying patterns of action, recognizing distinct user types, and cultivating and managing communities. This paper standardizes the usage of the term 'social role' in online community as a combination of social psychological, social structural, and behavioral attributes. Beyond the conceptual definition, we describe measurement and analysis strategies for identifying social roles in online community. We demonstrate this process in two domains, Usenet and Wikipedia, identifying key social roles in each domain. We conclude with directions for future research, with a particular focus on the analysis of communities as role ecologies.