Forget online communities?: Revisit cooperative work!

Yong Ming Kow; Bonnie Nardi

doi:10.1145/1958824.1958877

Forget online communities? Revisit cooperative work!

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Abstract

The term community does not have an exact equivalent in Chinese. Therefore, we may ask: To what extent do standard premises of online community research apply in China? In our ethnographic studies of two Chinese websites, we found that small "core teams" organized and managed work, and were sustained by offline and behind the scenes interactions. We urge that research on online communities examine preconceptions that may overlook important realities, and that we be mindful that small close-knit groups may be relevant, in the original spirit of studies of cooperative work. Copyright 2011 ACM.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
Pages	351-354
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1958824.1958877
Publication status	Published - 2011
Externally published	Yes
Event	ACM 2011 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2011 - Hangzhou, China Duration: 19 Mar 2011 → 23 Mar 2011 https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/1958824

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Conference	ACM 2011 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2011
Country/Territory	China
City	Hangzhou
Period	19/03/11 → 23/03/11
Internet address	https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/1958824

Research Keywords

China
Cooperative work
Online community

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