Theorizing a design-oriented categorization for online voluntary production communities

Ziaie, Pujan; Krcmar, Helmut

doi:10.1109/intech.2013.6653724

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“…Such an infrastructure may provide "deliberative social spaces that allow routine engagement" (Vivian's Voice, 2019) among researchers with policymakers as well as increase independent and sustainable policy engagement. Previous work with non-researchers indicates that virtual platform engagement is dependent upon (1) positive user experienceincluding intuitiveness, simplicity, responsiveness, and interactivity (Heylighen et al, 2013;Koh et al, 2007;Ziaie & Krcmar, 2014);…”

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“…(2) persuasive technology tactics such as goal setting, visual feedback, behavioral triggers, reward systems (e.g., peer evaluation), and gamification (e.g., symbolic rewards, levels, and votes; Heylighen et al, 2013;Koh et al, 2007); and (3) facilitating network development comprised of social connections (Koh et al, 2007) and leadership roles within network sub-groups (Hale, 2014;Rappaport, 1987). We also sought to further explore opportunities to increase recognition and reward for policy engagement since academics are reinforced for professional reputation and status (Blackmore & Kandiko, 2011;Kanter & Fine, 2010;Wasko & Faraj, 2005;Ziaie & Krcmar, 2014), whereas a lack of award and recognition has been noted as salient barriers to policy engagement (Bell & Lewis, 2023;Goodrich et al, 2020;Kim et al, 2023;Scott et al, 2019).…”

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Shifting the paradigm of research-to-policy impact: Infrastructure for improving researcher engagement and collective action

Scott,

Crowley,

Long

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Dev Psychopathol

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The body of scientific knowledge accumulated by the scholarly disciplines such as Developmental Psychopathology can achieve meaningful public impact if wielded and used in policy decision-making. Scientific study of how policymakers use research evidence underscores the need for researchers’ policy engagement; however, barriers in the academy create conditions in which there is a need for infrastructure that increases the feasibility of researchers’ partnership with policymakers. This need led to the development of the Research-to-Policy Collaboration model, a systematic approach for developing “boundary spanning” infrastructure, which has been experimentally tested and shown to improve policymakers’ use of research evidence and bolster researchers’ policy skills and engagement. This paper presents original research regarding the optimization of the RPC model, which sought to better serve and engage scholars across the globe. Trial findings shed light on ways to improve conditions that make good use of researchers’ time for policy engagement via a virtual platform and enhanced e-communications. Future directions, implications, and practical guidelines for how scientists can engage in the political process and improve the impact of a collective discipline are also discussed.

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Section: Virtual Policy Networkmentioning

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Shifting the paradigm of research-to-policy impact: Infrastructure for improving researcher engagement and collective action

Scott,

Crowley,

Long

et al. 2024

Dev Psychopathol

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“…Respectively, online or virtual communities are ubiquitous platforms to support TMSP in order to create, organize, and share knowledge; develop ideas; and solve problems [Hargadon and Bechky 2006]. Focusing on content development as the main purpose of a community, open production communities (OPCs) provide necessary mechanisms and features to support collaborative (peer-to-peer), creative, or even competitive creation of open content in particular topics of interest [Ziaie and Krcmar 2013b]. The type of generated content can vary from text (e.g., Wikipedia or Slashdot) and code (e.g., open source software [OSS] communities) to architectural sketching, video and audio editing, and geographical maps [De Alfaro et al 2011].…”

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A Model for Context in the Design of Open Production Communities

Ziaie

2014

ACM Comput. Surv.

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Open production communities (OPCs) provide technical features and social norms for a vast but dispersed and diverse crowd to collectively accumulate content. In OPCs, certain mechanisms, policies, and technologies are provided for voluntary users to participate in community-related activities including content generation, evaluation, qualification, and distribution and in some cases even community governance. Due to the known complexities and dynamism of online communities, designing a successful community is deemed more an art than a science. Numerous studies have investigated different aspects of certain types of OPCs. Most of these studies, however, fall short of delivering a general view or prescription due to their narrow focus on a certain type of OPCs. In contribution to theories on technology-mediated social participation (TMSP), this study synthesizes the streams of research in the particular area of OPCs and delivers a theoretical framework as a baseline for adapting findings from one specific type of community on another. This framework consists of four primary dimensions, namely, platform features, content, user, and community. The corresponding attributes of these dimensions and the existing interdependencies are discussed in detail. Furthermore, a decision diagram for selecting features and a design guideline for "decontextualizing" findings are introduced as possible applications of the framework. The framework also provides a new and reliable foundation on which future research can extend its findings and prescriptions in a systematic way. ACM Reference Format:Pujan Ziaie. 2014. A model for context in the design of open production communities.

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Theorizing a design-oriented categorization for online voluntary production communities

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Shifting the paradigm of research-to-policy impact: Infrastructure for improving researcher engagement and collective action

Shifting the paradigm of research-to-policy impact: Infrastructure for improving researcher engagement and collective action

A Model for Context in the Design of Open Production Communities

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