Evaluating the informational and social aspects of participation in online communities

Authors:
Emilie Marquois-Ogez;Cécile Bothorel
Affiliations:
France Telecom R&D, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France;France Telecom R&D, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Venue:
OTM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: AWeSOMe, CAMS, COMINF, IS, KSinBIT, MIOS-CIAO, MONET - Volume Part I
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This paper aims at showing how beneficial it is to use an analysis grid as a guide to evaluate the dynamics of an online community and, on the basis of this grid, to develop agent-based models to explore each of the dimensions characterizing online communities within this grid Several models from different perspectives have been proposed to study the dynamics of online communities (socio-technical perspective, life stages perspective...) In this paper, we consider two dimensions to evaluate them: the informational one and the social one Their constituents are derived from an empirical analysis and a review of the literature on online communities and reputation.