Forthcoming

American Behavioral Scientist
Special Issue on Open Collaboration and Wiki Research

Editors: Andrea Forte, Cliff Lampe, Barry Wellman

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  1. Defining, Understanding and Supporting Open Collaboration: Lessons from the Literature
    [submitted paper | ABS link | email author]
    Andrea Forte, Drexel University
    Cliff Lampe, University of Michigan
  2. Motivation for Open Collaboration: Crowd and Community Models and the Case of OpenStreetMap
    [submitted paper | ABS link | email authors]
    Nama R. Budhathoki, Apex College | Mobera Nepal | World Bank's Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI)
    Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of Britsh Columbia
  3. Rules and Roles vs. Consensus: Self-governed Mass Collaborative Deliberative Bureaucracies
    [submitted paper | ABS link | email author]
    Elisabeth Joyce, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
    Jacqueline Pike, Duquesne University
    Brian Butler, University of Maryland
  4. Hot off the Wiki: Structures and Dynamics of Wikipedia’s Coverage of Breaking News Events
    [submitted paper | ABS link | email author | #pdftribute]
    Brian Keegan, Northeastern University
    Darren Gergle, Northwestern University
    Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University
  5. Press-Public Collaboration as Infrastructure: Tracing News Organizations and Programming Publics in Application Programming Interfaces
    [submitted paper | ABS link | email author]
    Mike Ananny, University of Southern California | Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society
  6. The Remixing Dilemma: The Trade-off Between Generativity and Originality
    [submitted paper | ABS link | email author]
    Benjamin Mako Hill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  7. The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System: How Wikipedia’s reaction to popularity is causing its decline
    [submitted paper | ABS link | email author]
    Aaron Halfaker, University of Minnesota
    Stuart Geiger, University of California, Berkeley
    Jonathan Morgan, University of Washington
    John Riedl, University of Minnesota