The dynamics of mass interaction
CSCW '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Communications of the ACM
Visualization components for persistent conversations
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Observed behavior and perceived value of authors in usenet newsgroups: bridging the gap
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Social translucence: designing social infrastructures that make collective activity visible
Communications of the ACM - Supporting community and building social capital
A semantic approach to visualizing online conversations
Communications of the ACM - Supporting community and building social capital
Tools for navigating large social cyberspaces
Communications of the ACM - Supporting community and building social capital
Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities
Community Building on the Web: Secret Strategies for Successful Online Communities
Conversation thumbnails for large-scale discussions
CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Information Systems Research
Slash(dot) and burn: distributed moderation in a large online conversation space
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Conversation Map: An Interface for Very Large-Scale Conversations
Journal of Management Information Systems
"Alone together?": exploring the social dynamics of massively multiplayer online games
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The life and death of online gaming communities: a look at guilds in world of warcraft
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Frequency and structure of long distance scholarly collaborations in a physics community
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Statistical analysis of the social network and discussion threads in slashdot
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Please help!: patterns of personalization in an online tech support board
Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Communities and technologies
Motivations to participate in online communities
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Towards promoting interactivity in a B2B web community
Information Systems Frontiers
Monitoring interactivity in a web-based community
WISE'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Web Information Systems
"I'm just here to play games": social dynamics and sociality in an online game site
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Community insights: helping community leaders enhance the value of enterprise online communities
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CommunityCompare: visually comparing communities for online community leaders in the enterprise
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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We describe a usage study of NetscanTech, a system that generates and publishes daily a range of social metrics across three dimensions: newsgroup, author, and thread, for a set of approximately 15,000 technical newsgroups in Usenet. We bring together three interlinked datasets: survey data, usage log data and social accounting data from Usenet participation, to triangulate the relationship between various user roles and differential usage of social metrics in NetscanTech. We found our most frequent users focused on information related to individual authors far more than any other information provided. In contrast, users that visited less frequently focused more on information related to newsgroups and viewing newsgroup metrics. Our results suggest features that designers and developers of online communities may wish to include in their interfaces to support the cultivation of different community roles.