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Research paper thumbnail of Privacy regulation in online social interaction

Research paper thumbnail of Exploring characteristics of collective content

Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual CHI conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '08, 2008

People increasingly share online information with the communities they belong to. This paper pres... more People increasingly share online information with the communities they belong to. This paper presents an empirical field study of four communities on how they interact with collective content. Our results reveal users' motivations for creating collective content. The results indicate the defining characteristics by which collective content can be described: semantic content of the content item, the level of sharing and the community's contribution. Furthermore, we found that collectivity of content is not primarily an ownership issue but more a matter of users' perceptions of communality of content.

Research paper thumbnail of Collective Content as a Facilitator of Community Interaction: A User Study of Four Close-Knit Communities

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2009

Social online services offer communities means for creating and using media content together. The... more Social online services offer communities means for creating and using media content together. The content is jointly used for maintaining relationships and constructing common memories and experiences. Thus, it is very collective by nature. However, few studies have focused on the ways in which communities interact with such collective content. We conducted a field study on how four communities create,

Research paper thumbnail of Privacy regulation in online social interaction

Research paper thumbnail of Exploring characteristics of collective content

Proceeding of the twenty-sixth annual CHI conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '08, 2008

People increasingly share online information with the communities they belong to. This paper pres... more People increasingly share online information with the communities they belong to. This paper presents an empirical field study of four communities on how they interact with collective content. Our results reveal users' motivations for creating collective content. The results indicate the defining characteristics by which collective content can be described: semantic content of the content item, the level of sharing and the community's contribution. Furthermore, we found that collectivity of content is not primarily an ownership issue but more a matter of users' perceptions of communality of content.

Research paper thumbnail of Collective Content as a Facilitator of Community Interaction: A User Study of Four Close-Knit Communities

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2009

Social online services offer communities means for creating and using media content together. The... more Social online services offer communities means for creating and using media content together. The content is jointly used for maintaining relationships and constructing common memories and experiences. Thus, it is very collective by nature. However, few studies have focused on the ways in which communities interact with such collective content. We conducted a field study on how four communities create,

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