Nicholas Vincent

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Peer produced Friction: The consequences of Wikipedia page protection and editor engagement

Peer production systems have frictions–mechanisms that make contributing more effortful–to prevent vandalism and protect information quality. Page protection on Wikipedia is a mechanism where the platform’s core values conflict, but there is little quantitative work to ground deliberation. In this paper, we empiricall…

CSCW '211st AuthorData Work and AI

Can “Conscious Data Contribution” Help Users to Exert “Data Leverage” Against Technology Companies?

Tech users currently have limited ability to act on concerns around the negative societal impacts of large tech companies. However, recent work suggests users can exert leverage using their role as contributors of valuable data, for instance by withholding their data contributions to intelligent technologies. We prop…

CSCW '211st AuthorCrowds and Data Work

A Deeper Investigation of the Importance of Wikipedia Links to Search Engine Results

A growing body of work has highlighted the important role that Wikipedia’s volunteer-created content plays in helping search engines achieve their core goal of addressing the information needs of millions of people. In this paper, we report the results of an investigation into the incidence of Wikipedia links in searc…

CHI '213rd AuthorAR Navigation & Context Awareness +2

AdverTiming Matters: Examining User Ad Consumption for Effective Ad Allocations on Social Media

Showing ads delivers revenue for online content distributors, but ad exposure can compromise user experience and cause user fatigue and frustration. Correctly balancing ads with other content is imperative. Currently, ad allocation relies primarily on demographics and inferred user interests, which are treated as stat…

CSCW '192nd AuthorProtest and participation

How Do People Change Their Technology Use in Protest?: Understanding “Protest Users”

Researchers and the media have become increasingly interested in protest users, or people who change (protest use) or stop (protest non-use) their use of a company’s products because of the company’s values and/or actions. Past work has extensively engaged with the phenomenon of technology non-use but has not focused…

CSCW '182nd AuthorGenders

Women (Still) Ask For Less: Gender Differences in Hourly Rate in an Online Labor Marketplace

In many traditional labor markets, women earn less on average compared to men. However, it is unclear whether this discrepancy persists in the online gig economy, which bears important differences from the traditional labor market (e.g., more flexible work arrangements, shorter-term engagements, reputation systems). I…

CHI '181st AuthorBest PaperCommunity Collaboration & Wikipedia +1

Examining Wikipedia With a Broader Lens: Quantifying the Value of Wikipedia’s Relationships with Other Large-Scale Online Communities

The extensive Wikipedia literature has largely considered Wikipedia in isolation, outside of the context of its broader Internet ecosystem. Very recent research has demonstrated the significance of this limitation, identifying critical relationships between Google and Wikipedia that are highly relevant to many areas o…

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