User Motivations in Peer Production

Spaeth, Sebastian; Niederhöfer, Sven

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“…Consistent with previous research (Schüll, 2018) we identify that early motivations for self-researchers relate to personal goals for solving specific health conditions, in the case of patient-led research practices, or to improve well-being in other cases. This highly personal motivational aspect, not usually considered in citizen science or other domains of participatory research, is specific to personal science (Lupton, 2014), and coincides with intrinsic motivations of "own use value" identified in the study of peer production (Spaeth and Niederhöfer, 2020). Regarding this type of motivation, patient-led self-researchers mentioned a desire to gain knowledge on personal, medical conditions.…”

Section: Initial Motivations For Improving Health Conditions and Well-beingsupporting

confidence: 54%

“…While extrinsic motivations seem infrequent in self-research n, learning by direct practice and by sharing personal progress with peers in community settings represents another key motivational aspect for these practitioners, in line with peer production practices (Spaeth and Niederhöfer, 2020). Additionally, scaling to "N-of-many" beyond N-of-1 approaches by data aggregation (Nafus, 2019) is another of the aspirations identified in our interviews, where participants from patient-led contexts reported to integrate other self-researchers.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 68%

“…To analyze the interviews, we developed a conceptual framework (Figure 1) based on previous studies on motivations in citizen science (Jennett et al, 2016), the inquiry cycle of personal science (Wolf and De Groot, 2020;Heyen, 2016), the scientific values or ethos of the Mertonian norms (Merton, 1973) and collaboration in peer production (Spaeth and Niederhöfer, 2020). This latter focus on peer production is relevant to take into account other open, digital-mediated collaborative practices with social and technological implications.…”

Section: Conceptual Framework and Codebook For Interviews Interpretationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Enjoying data and "tech-related" activities (like customizing tools, combining data sources or plotting results), which imply practical knowledge needed for working with self-tracking technology, seems to be a relevant source of motivation for several interviewees, similarly to "fun" motivations for involvement in peer production (Spaeth and Niederhöfer, 2020). This can be seen as a form of non compliant, creative agency in extreme practices of self-tracking (Kristensen and Ruckenstein, 2018).…”

Section: Reinforced Motivations By Enjoying Data Research and Tech-related Activitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These knowledge sharing practices are very relevant for the motivations, goals and expectations of a majority of self-researchers interviewed, and perceived accordingly in connection to values of openness, mutual trust and respect for the ideas or practices of peers (Zhao et al, 2015;Spaeth and Niederhöfer, 2020). This motivation for sharing usually refers to a common interest in scaling up research, for example involving more participants by opening up self-research data for others, as considered by Participant #22 regarding the community of patients this interviewee is part of:…”

Section: The Minor Role Of Extrinsic Motivations For Doing Self-researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Shared motivations, goals and values in the practice of personal science - A community perspective on self-tracking for empirical knowledge

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Some individuals do not limit their self-tracking efforts to passively collecting and observing gathered data about themselves, but rather develop it into forms of self-research and self-experimentation, also called “personal science”. This type of N-of-1 research is relevant to the fields of personal informatics, patient-led research and social studies of science, but as a knowledge generation practice is still poorly understood. To fill this gap, we conducted 22 semi-structured interviews to investigate the intrinsic and extrinsic motivations of individuals engaging in personal science activities, as well as shared goals and values present in self-research communities. Our analysis is based on a conceptual framework that integrates previous approaches in self-research, as well as in connection with citizen science, the scientific ethos and cooperation in peer production. We identify how self-researchers seek to go beyond personal metrics about their health and wellbeing regarding data provided by wearables, are engaged over time by individual involvement in technology and scientific-related activity, and collaborate following similar goals and values when learning and sharing empirical knowledge with peers. In this sense, personal science can be understood as an example of a more participatory and inclusive scientific culture driven by self-reflection, critical thinking and openness.

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Section: Initial Motivations For Improving Health Conditions and Well-beingsupporting

confidence: 54%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 68%

Section: Conceptual Framework and Codebook For Interviews Interpretationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Reinforced Motivations By Enjoying Data Research and Tech-related Activitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Minor Role Of Extrinsic Motivations For Doing Self-researchmentioning

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Shared motivations, goals and values in the practice of personal science - A community perspective on self-tracking for empirical knowledge

Hidalgo¹,

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Opoix³

et al. 2021

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Shared motivations, goals and values in the practice of personal science: a community perspective on self-tracking for empirical knowledge

Hidalgo

Ball

Opoix

et al. 2022

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Some individuals do not limit their self-tracking efforts to passively collecting and observing gathered data about themselves, but rather develop it into forms of self-research and self-experimentation, also called “personal science”. This type of N-of-1 research is relevant to the fields of personal informatics, patient-led research and social studies of science, but as a knowledge generation practice is still poorly understood. To fill this gap, we conducted 22 semi-structured interviews to investigate the intrinsic and extrinsic motivations of individuals engaging in personal science activities, as well as shared goals and values present in self-research communities. Our analysis is based on a conceptual framework that integrates previous approaches in self-research, as well as in connection with citizen science, the scientific ethos and cooperation in peer production. We identify how self-researchers seek to go beyond personal metrics about their health and wellbeing regarding data provided by wearables, are engaged over time by individual involvement in technology and scientific-related activity, and collaborate following similar goals and values when learning and sharing empirical knowledge with peers. In this sense, personal science can be understood as a specific type of citizen science and an example of a more participatory and inclusive scientific culture driven by self-reflection, critical thinking and openness.

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Value-orientation Differentiation of Volunteers Educating of the Internet Encyclopedia “Wikipedia” and the Project “Otvety.” Part 1

Bryzgalin

Voiskounsky

Kozlovskiy

2022

RUDN J. Psychol. Pedagog.

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The development of the Internet contributes to the activity of education volunteers who disseminate a variety of information on the Web. This study is limited to virtual volunteers who share useful knowledge in cyberspace. Although the issues of volunteering are covered quite widely in psychological science, the volitional mechanisms that encourage online educational activities have been poorly studied. The leading role in the deployment of such prosocial behavior is played by a specific value-orientation system. The purpose of this research is to identify and describe the systems of values and value orientations of online educators, namely representatives of the expert core of the online encyclopedia “Wikipedia” (N = 96) and the question-answer (QA) online project “Otvety” (N = 47). The study is based on the value-specific (SVS, PVQ) methodology developed by Sh. Schwartz and adapted by V.N. Karandashev; the participants belong to the abovementioned expert core groups of online education volunteers. The results reveal their relatively homogeneous set of values, which is developing into an altruistic meta-orientation towards autonomously given and situationally different dissemination of knowledge aimed at providing information (as a public utility) and regulated by self-transcendence and openness to changes. Intersubjective (in terms of normative ideals and individual priorities) and intergroup (in terms of communities) value-related comparison of the study participants - Wikipedia authors and QA “Otvety” service experts - optionally show that the Wikipedians are more inclined to avoid saturated social relationships (being socially inert), however, are much more hedonistic about life than the QA-experts. At the same time, both groups are brought together as close as possible by the radical condemnation of any factors that interfere with social harmony and limit the freedom to manifest oneself as a person. Based on the obtained results, it can be concluded that further understanding of the personal and group characteristics of education volunteers can expand the scope of education; therefore, in subsequent studies, it is proposed to use successive psychodiagnostic methods that measure value specificity in a psychosocial context.

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User Motivations in Peer Production

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Shared motivations, goals and values in the practice of personal science - A community perspective on self-tracking for empirical knowledge

Shared motivations, goals and values in the practice of personal science - A community perspective on self-tracking for empirical knowledge

Shared motivations, goals and values in the practice of personal science: a community perspective on self-tracking for empirical knowledge

Value-orientation Differentiation of Volunteers Educating of the Internet Encyclopedia “Wikipedia” and the Project “Otvety.” Part 1

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