The cathedral and the bazaar: musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary
The cathedral and the bazaar: musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary
Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM
Studying cooperation and conflict between authors with history flow visualizations
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Social creativity: turning barriers into opportunities for collaborative design
PDC 04 Proceedings of the eighth conference on Participatory design: Artful integration: interweaving media, materials and practices - Volume 1
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
Cooperation and quality in wikipedia
Proceedings of the 2007 international symposium on Wikis
Harnessing the wisdom of crowds in wikipedia: quality through coordination
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Leadership in online creative collaboration
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
An analysis of the social structure of remix culture
Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Communities and technologies
Communications of the ACM - Scratch Programming for All
A tale of two online communities: fostering collaboration and creativity in scientists and children
Proceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition
Proceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition
Crowdsourcing graphical perception: using mechanical turk to assess visualization design
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
Cooks or cobblers?: crowd creativity through combination
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Crowds in two seconds: enabling realtime crowd-powered interfaces
Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Saving, reusing, and remixing web video: using attitudes and practices to reveal social norms
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
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In this paper, we use evidence from a remixing community to evaluate two pieces of common wisdom about collaboration. First, we test the theory that jointly produced works tend to be of higher quality than individually authored products. Second, we test the theory that collaboration improves the quality of functional works like code, but that it works less well for artistic works like images and sounds. We use data from Scratch, a large online community where hundreds of thousands of young users share and remix millions of animations and interactive games. Using peer-ratings as a measure of quality, we estimate a series of fitted regression models and find that collaborative Scratch projects tend to receive ratings that are lower than individually authored works. We also find that code-intensive collaborations are rated higher than media-intensive efforts. We conclude by discussing the limitations and implications of these findings.