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Communications of the ACM
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Communications of the ACM - How the virtual inspires the real
Stimulating social engagement in a community network
CSCW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Information Systems Research
Multimedia fliers: information sharing with digital community bulletin boards
Communities and technologies
On the Inequality of Contributions to Wikipedia
HICSS '08 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
An empirical study of critical mass and online community survival
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
The effects of diversity on group productivity and member withdrawal in online volunteer groups
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Thanks and tweets: comparing two public displays
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Designing shared public display networks: implications from today's paper-based notice areas
Pervasive'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Pervasive computing
Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World
Net Locality: Why Location Matters in a Networked World
Engaging new digital locals with interactive urban screens to collaboratively improve the city
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Twitter and the development of an audience: those who stay on topic thrive!
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Networked: The New Social Operating System
Networked: The New Social Operating System
Think globally, act locally: a case study of a free food sharing community and social networking
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
Civic action brokering platforms: facilitating local engagement with ACTion Alexandria
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
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While there is significant potential for social technologies to strengthen local communities, creating viable online spaces for them remains difficult. Maintaining a reliable content stream is challenging for local communities with their bounded emphases and limited population of potential contributors. Some systems focus on specific information types (e.g. restaurant, events). Others allow many different information types. This paper reports our findings about the consequences of content diversity from a study of neighborhood-oriented Facebook groups. The findings raise questions about the viability of designs for local online communities that focus narrowly on single topics, goals, and audiences.