Which Way Did They Go?: Newcomer Movement through the Zooniverse
Which Way Did They Go?: Newcomer Movement through the Zooniverse
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他们走了哪条路？：动物园宇宙中的新人运动
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2016
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Gabriel H. Mugar
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C. Jackson;Carsten S. Østerlund;Veronica Maidel;Kevin Crowston;Gabriel H. Mugar
对同侪生产网站（例如维基百科）中新手角色的研究，其特点是有一系列广泛且相对清晰明确的、在功能和文化上可识别的角色。但并非所有社区都有定义明确的、新手可以渴望占据的角色。本研究探讨了新手在面临可识别的角色很少且获取其他参与者作为范例的工作机会有限时所形成的活动集群。借助混合方法研究设计，我们展示了对一个在线公民科学项目中1687个新手活动阶段的分析结果。我们的分析揭示了三个主要发现：（1）新手的活动存在于六种活动阶段类型中；（2）新手在轻度工作阶段和更深入的生产或社区参与类型之间切换；（3）高水平贡献者贡献大量工作但很少发表评论，而另一群体发表大量评论但工作很少。前者大量借鉴后者所贡献的帖子。识别贡献的变化和规律有助于改进吸引参与者的机制以及在线公民科学社区的设计。
Research on newcomer roles in peer production sites (e.g., Wikipedia) is characterized by a broad and relatively well articulated set of functionally and culturally recognizable roles. But not all communities come with well-defined roles that newcomers can aspire to occupy. The present study explores activity clusters newcomers create when faced with few recognizable roles to fill and limited access to other participants' work that serves as an exemplar. Drawing on a mixed method research design, we present findings from an analysis of 1,687 newcomers' sessions in an online citizen science project. Our analysis revealed three major findings: (1) newcomers' activities exists across six session types; (2) newcomers toggle between light work sessions and more involved types of production or community engagement; (3) high-level contributors contribute large volumes of work but comment very little and another group contributes large volumes of comments, but works very little. The former group draws heavily on posts contributed by the latter group. Identifying shifts and regularities in contribution facilitate improved mechanisms for engaging participants and for the design of online citizen science communities.