Aaron Shaw

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Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media

Decentralizing the governance of social computing systems to communities promises to empower them to make independent decisions, with nuance and in context. Yet, communities do not govern in isolation. Many problems communities face are common, or move across their boundaries. We propose designing for inter-community…

CSCW '24CorrespondingSession 2f: Governance, Online Communities, and Design

Adopting third-party bots for managing online communities

Bots have become critical to the management of communities on platforms, especially to match the growing scale and technical sophistication of online harms. However, community leaders often adopt third-party bots, creating room for misalignment in their assumptions, expectations, and understandings (i.e., their techno…

CHI '222nd AuthorHonorable MentionCommunity Collaboration & Wikipedia +1

The social embeddedness of peer production: A comparative qualitative analysis of three Indian language Wikipedia editions

Why do some peer production projects do a better job at engaging potential contributors than others? We address this question by comparing three Indian language Wikipedias, namely, —Malayalam, Marathi, and Kannada. We found that although the three projects share goals, technological infrastructure, and a similar set o…

CSCW '19CorrespondingWikis and Wikipedia

All Talk: How Increasing Interpersonal Communication on Wikis May Not Enhance Productivity

Prior research suggests that facilitating easier communication in social computing systems will increase both interpersonal interactions as well as group productivity. This study tests these claims by examining the impact of a new communication feature called "message walls'' that allows for faster and more intuitive…

CSCW '182nd AuthorOnline Community Engagement

Managing Organizational Culture in Online Group Mergers

Research in social computing has typically conceptualized community growth as a process through which a group welcomes newcomers individually. However, online communities also grow through formal and informal mergers, where groups of newcomers with shared experiences join in batches. To understand this process, we con…

CHI '182nd AuthorCommunity Collaboration & Wikipedia +1

Revisiting “The Rise and Decline” in a Population of Peer Production Projects

Do patterns of growth and stabilization found in large peer production systems such as Wikipedia occur in other communities? This study assesses the generalizability of Halfaker et al.'s influential 2013 paper on “The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System.” We replicate its tests of several theories related…

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