Adding Nate's and Mary Joyce's GRPF applications.
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\title{Personal Statement}
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\author{Nathan TeGrotenhuis}
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New datasets of digital traces open an unexplored frontier in organizational and communication research. Taking advantage of these ``big data'' sources requires novel skills and tools uncommon in the social sciences. My experience as a programmer, researcher, and student has prepared me to develop new computational techniques for understanding online communities. My community service and organizing experience motivates me to do path-breaking social science research that will make a broad impact by empowering communities in the public sphere to solve complex problems.
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Although not a common path, I feel that my experience as a technologist has prepared me for a career as social scientist. In my employment as a developer for Microsoft from 2012--2014, I designed and constructed large--scale, cutting edge commercial software on Bing.com, writing code that runs millions of times every day. Engineering software professionally broadened my technical knowledge to include machine learning, natural language processing, search engines and distributed systems. Collaborating with teams in China, India, and England taught me about working as part of an international community. Embedded in a world class mega-corporation, I could observe workers and managers navigating the complex web interactions of culture, incentives, and organizational structure that produce ambiguous values and direction. This experience motivates me to understand coordination of workers and activities in an alternative organizational modes.
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In 2015, I worked as an independent consultant to create data-driven tools that help patients avoid rehospitalization and to help healthcare workers identify patients who should be evaluated for hospice. This work spreads knowledge of data analysis tools and statistics to the home health and hospice industries, creates efficiencies in the healthcare system, and ameliorates unnecessary suffering. It has prepared me for graduate school by giving me experience applying statistical research methods and communicating results to non-technical audiences.
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In addition to advanced computational skills, I have engaged in research with three groups. From 2008-2010, at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, I developed a method of analyzing digital images to measure the expansion of samples of simulated nuclear waste as it was melted into glass through a vitrification process. My method, which used Photoshop and basic calculus, was effective and became a workhorse of the research group. I wrote about my work in a technical report and two academic publications. This work advanced material science knowledge and the nuclear waste clean--up project at the Hanford site. My early success instilled confidence and a love for the research process and motivates me to mentor young researchers in the future.
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I next participated in two research projects with Whitworth faculty. The first attempted to use genetic algorithms to design nonlinear control systems. The second was a biotechnology project that attempted to engineer an enzyme for the treatment of celiac disease. I participated in the exploratory phase of both projects, and neither came to fruition, but they gave me experience researching independently and taking on ambitious challenges in a modest research group.
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Also as an undergraduate, I collaborated remotely with a research group at University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne. I contributed an auto--complete system to an experimental structured search engine. In contrast to my research at Whitworth, this project was well--funded industrial computer engineering. My experiences with the research process, working in in large and small groups, and writing for academic publication have prepared me to become a STEM leader through my graduate training.
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Additionally, my community service and organizing experiences are foundational to my character. Twice a month to from 2005--2007, I volunteered at community meeting in the town of White Swan on the Yakama Indian reservation, providing childcare. Working with underprivileged children and youth gave me first hand knowledge of problems like addiction, poverty and neglect. Despite the efforts of the organization I worked with, I also witnessed how the outsider status of volunteers can create obstacles to desired change. I learned that community members are often the only ones who can effectively address such problems. I applied these lessons in my work with International Justice Mission at Whitworth University where I helped organize awareness raising events and studied the economics of human trafficking. These experiences reflect the values of democracy, collectivity, and humanism that motivate me to make a broad impact by empowering communities with the technical, social, and organizational tools they need to make a difference.
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Graduate studies at the University of Washington, in a top communication department with strengths in science and technology studies, organizational communication, and new media studies, will prepare me to become a leading scholar by connecting me to excellent mentors and a broad intellectual community. My training in the evaluation of evidence and ideas from qualitative and interpretive investigations will empower me to communicate my quantitative findings to a broad community. The department has a constant stream of contact with the iSchool and the department of Human Centered Design and Engineering so I am embedded in an interdisciplinary community of technology scholars.
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This academic diversity will enable me to identify salient questions for study and communicate my findings to the public. As a communication scholar, I will create social and intellectual pathways between the STEM community and that of social science and humanities scholars that will broaden the scope of questions that STEM fields address. Because my research topic is both interdisciplinary and of public concern, it is pertinent to a wide range of academics. It will create connections between computer and social science that are translatable to the public.
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I am deeply committed to disseminating the skills and tools I use in my own research -- especially among groups that are underrepresented in STEM fields. I think the lack of diversity in computer science is partly caused by the fact that many women and minorities expect that computer science is not interested in understanding their condition or helping them solve the problems they face. I hope that by doing work that applies computation to understand social organization and collective action, I will begin to redefine these expectations.
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Towards these ends, I have been actively involved in outreach projects. For example, since fall of 2014, I have volunteered as an instructor with the Community Data Science Workshop (CDSW) at the University of Washington. In these workshops, I have helped teach hundreds of students and community organizers -- most of them women -- the basics of programming, data acquisition, and data visualization. Guiding these students through their first programming experiences is rewarding because they can use their computational skills in their efforts to make the world a better place by studying digital traces, solving scientific problems, and advancing knowledge. I plan to continue to contribute to the CDSW during my time at UW.
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More importantly, I see workshops like the CDSW that aim to democratize skills used by technologists and academics as inspiration and a template for making STEM knowledge and skills accessible to boader and more diverse audiences. For example, the CDSW uses peer production to compose and distribute educational materials and workshops on data science and to attempt to involve others in replicating the workshops and in creating spinoffs. With better understanding of peer production, the CDSW could reach more people or similar processes could produce materials for Community Material Science Workshops, Community Mechanical Engineering Workshops, or Community 3D Printing Workshops. My research will create pathways for activist, faith, educational, neighborhood, and workplace communities to cooperate effectively on complex tasks by utilizing peer production and STEM tools for organizing volunteer resources.
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In the ways I have detailed, I am well placed and well prepared to take full advantage of the resources that an NSF graduate research fellowship would provide. With the fellowship, I know I can make a significant contribution to the science of communication and organization. I know I can make an impact on the nation and the world.
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Peer production is the distributed process of online collaboration behind Free/Open Source Software and Wikipedia and has been described as among the most important organizational innovations made possible by the Internet \cite{benkler_peer_ci}. Although peer production organizations are frequently compared to traditional markets and firms, most research on peer production has looked to internal factors like users, interface design, and social networks to explain project success. Strikingly, we know that the survival of traditional organizations is significantly influenced by \textit{environmental pressures} within populations of organizations such as legitimization and competition \cite{hannan_population_1977}. My goal is to study how environmental pressures explain the success and failure of peer production organizations. My research will help peer production projects, map differences between peer production and traditional organizations, and contribute to a broader understanding of collective action, organizational communication, and communal public goods.
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I am particularly interested in how peer production contributors work simultaneously in multiple organizations. Although this might intensify competition between organizations for volunteers' time, it can also lead to complementarities as contributors' experience with similar projects may increase their skill or motivation. Using social scientific methods and models from organizational ecology, I will build upon a small number of previous studies in computer science to understand the distinct manifestations of competition and complementarities in peer production \cite{zhu_selecting_2014}.
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My research will bring methodological innovation and ``big data'' techniques to organization research and will use collections of digital traces from millions of individuals working across many thousands of organizations over time. Unlike previous studies of competition and complementarity, I will use these datasets to look both within and across organizations across time.
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\textbf{Hypotheses:}
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I already have access to data from three of the largest and most impactful peer production community platforms: over 80,000 wikis from the wiki provider Wikia, 716,000 communities hosted within the website Reddit, and 40,000 distinct software projects hosted within the Debian project. I will test three hypotheses that describe major untested theories in organizational communication research and the study of online communities.
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\begin{enumerate}[noitemsep,topsep=0pt]
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\item As predicted by organizational ecology and resource mobilization theory, competition over niches will deny most new projects volunteer labor and cause them to fail.
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\item Complementarities between communities will lead to rapid community growth in successful organizations.
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\item Unlike traditional organizations, peer production projects will change to complement and cooperate with each other, rather than compete.
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To test the first hypothesis, I will first measure levels of community activity within individual communities over time to identify when a community is born or dies, use digital traces to identify individuals participating in different communities, and use machine learning analyses of communities to identify organization niches. Using these inputs, I will use survival analyses to model organization lifespans to see if niches and volunteer scarcity presents hazards to organizations. I will use hierarchical models to control for differences between organization populations.
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\textbf{Technical Skills and Mentoring:}
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My mentor and advisor Dr. Benjamin Mako Hill is an expert in peer production communities, quantitative social science, and organizational communication. I am the newest member of the \textit{Community Data Science Collective} -- a multi-institutional research group including faculty at Northwestern University which will provide learning opportunities, collaborators, and forums for sharing research. In previous work, the group has parsed datasets from each of the peer production communities I hope to study. In pilot research addressing the first hypothesis above, we have found some evidence of a positive relationship between the number of edits to the Wikia and Wikipedia encyclopedias over time.
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Thanks to my professional background, I will be able to take advantage of the abundant computational resources at the University of Washington to use the very large datasets I've described. I will take advanced statistics and econometrics courses to enable me to build on these skills.
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% should be all about me!
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\textbf{Intellectual Merit:}
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My work will advance our understanding of \textit{organizational communication} by adapting established theories from organizational ecology and resource mobilization to peer production. I hope to be the first to to measure, at a large scale, both the aggregate effects of ecological forces and the behavior of individuals subject to them. My project will advance understanding of social movements and volunteer labor because peer production is a remarkable instance of \textit{collective action} \cite{olson_logic_2009} and
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%\subsubsection{Communal Public Goods}
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% ``contributing to the literature'' by
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will contribute to the literature on \textit{communal public goods} by investigating the challenges of firms incentivizing their production to see if commercial or bureaucratic characteristics of the workplace necessarily contradict the incentives for peer production \cite{fulk_connective_1996}.
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\textbf{Broader Impacts:}
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Peer produced projects such as Wikipedia and free/open source software are now vital technologies for the national interest and global economy. Wikipedia and Stack Exchange are important resources for STEM education. Apache and GNU/Linux technologies form the backbone of information infrastructure. I will engage in \textit{STEM leadership} by reaching out to peer production communities in the hope of \textit{informing decisions} that affect the directions of their organizations.
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My work will also be in pursuit of my personal goal to advance \textit{quantitative and computational methods} in the social sciences. I will incorporate this research into teaching courses, volunteering at public data science workshops in Seattle, and through collaboration with other social science researchers.
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In the course of my work, I will \textit{construct software} for the collection, organization and analysis of large datasets. I will publish both my software and my datasets so that other researchers and programmers can learn from and reuse my work.
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\textbf{Criteria For Success:}
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My work will be successful in so far as it builds new salient theories, performs persuasive tests of existing influential theories, and develops new computational tools, datasets, and scientific methods.
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@InBook{benkler_peer_ci,
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chapter = {Peer {Production}: {A} {Form} of {Collective} {Intelligence}},
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shorttitle = {Peer {Production}},
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url = {http://mako.cc/academic/benkler_shaw_hill-peer_production_ci.pdf},
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urldate = {2015-10-06},
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year = 2015,
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author = {Benkler, Yochai and Shaw, Aaron and Hill, Benjamin Mako},
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title = {Collective Intelligence},
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publisher = {MIT Press},
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file = {benkler_shaw_hill-peer_production_ci.pdf:/home/nathante/.mozilla/firefox/s5qzp5zi.default/zotero/storage/7GR6MFZK/benkler_shaw_hill-peer_production_ci.pdf:application/pdf}
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}
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@article{fulk_test_2004,
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title = {A Test of the Individual Action Model for Organizational Information Commons},
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volume = {15},
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issn = {1047-7039, 1526-5455},
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url = {http://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/orsc.1040.0081},
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doi = {10.1287/orsc.1040.0081},
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pages = {569--585},
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number = {5},
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journal = {Organization Science},
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author = {Fulk, Janet and Heino, Rebecca and Flanagin, Andrew J. and Monge, Peter R. and Bar, François},
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urldate = {2015-10-03},
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langid = {english},
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file = {download.pdf:/home/nathante/.mozilla/firefox/s5qzp5zi.default/zotero/storage/SAK6QNP5/download.pdf:application/pdf}
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}
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@article{fulk_connective_1996,
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title = {Connective and communal public goods in interactive communication systems},
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volume = 6,
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url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2885.1996.tb00120.x/full},
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pages = {60--87},
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number = 1,
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journal = {Communication Theory},
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author = {Fulk, Janet and Flanagin, Andrew J. and Kalman, Michael E. and Monge, Peter R. and Ryan, Timothy},
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urldate = {2015-10-03},
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year = 1996,
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file = {Fulketal1996(CT).pdf:/home/nathante/.mozilla/firefox/s5qzp5zi.default/zotero/storage/UFZ33UDV/Fulketal1996(CT).pdf:application/pdf}
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}
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@article{monge_production_1998,
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title = {Production of collective action in alliance-based interorganizational communication and information systems},
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volume = 9,
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url = {http://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1287/orsc.9.3.411},
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pages = {411--433},
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number = 3,
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journal = {Organization Science},
|
||||
author = {Monge, Peter R. and Fulk, Janet and Kalman, Michael E. and Flanagin, Andrew J. and Parnassa, Claire and Rumsey, Suzanne},
|
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urldate = {2015-10-03},
|
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year = 1998,
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note = 00242,
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file = {Collective_OS_1998.pdf:/home/nathante/.mozilla/firefox/s5qzp5zi.default/zotero/storage/WUNBSCVG/Collective_OS_1998.pdf:application/pdf}
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}
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@book{olson_logic_2009,
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title = {The logic of collective action},
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isbn = {0-674-04166-6},
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publisher = {Harvard University Press},
|
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author = {Olson, Mancur},
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date = 2009,
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year = 1965,
|
||||
file = {Mancur Olson - Logic of Collective Action.pdf:/home/nathante/.mozilla/firefox/s5qzp5zi.default/zotero/storage/CW2UIM8W/Mancur Olson - Logic of Collective Action.pdf:application/pdf}
|
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}
|
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|
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@inproceedings{zhu_selecting_2014,
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title = {Selecting an effective niche: an ecological view of the success of online communities},
|
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isbn = {978-1-4503-2473-1},
|
||||
url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2556288.2557348},
|
||||
doi = {10.1145/2556288.2557348},
|
||||
shorttitle = {Selecting an effective niche},
|
||||
pages = {301--310},
|
||||
publisher = {{ACM} Press},
|
||||
author = {Zhu, Haiyi and Chen, Jilin and Matthews, Tara and Pal, Aditya and Badenes, Hernan and Kraut, Robert E.},
|
||||
urldate = {2015-10-01},
|
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year = {2014},
|
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langid = {english},
|
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file = {NicheEcologicalOnlineCommunities_Zhu_2014.pdf:o/home/nathante/Research/Organizational_Ecology/NicheEcologicalOnlineCommunities_Zhu_2014.pdf:application/pdf},
|
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booktitle={Studying Online Communities},
|
||||
}
|
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|
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@article{benkler_coases_2002-1,
|
||||
title = {Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and "The Nature of the Firm"},
|
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volume = {112},
|
||||
issn = {00440094},
|
||||
url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/1562247?origin=crossref},
|
||||
doi = {10.2307/1562247},
|
||||
pages = {369},
|
||||
number = {3},
|
||||
journaltitle = {The Yale Law Journal},
|
||||
author = {Benkler, Yochai},
|
||||
urldate = {2015-10-07},
|
||||
date = {2002-12},
|
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note = {00006},
|
||||
file = {1562247.pdf:/home/nathante/.mozilla/firefox/s5qzp5zi.default/zotero/storage/WZW5MB9U/1562247.pdf:application/pdf}
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}
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@book{kraut2012building,
|
||||
title={Building successful online communities: Evidence-based social design},
|
||||
author={Kraut, Robert E and Resnick, Paul and Kiesler, Sara and Burke, Moira and Chen, Yan and Kittur, Niki and Konstan, Joseph and Ren, Yuqing and Riedl, John},
|
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year={2012},
|
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publisher={Mit Press}
|
||||
}
|
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|
||||
@article{mccarthy_resource_1977,
|
||||
title = {Resource mobilization and social movements: A partial theory},
|
||||
url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/2777934},
|
||||
shorttitle = {Resource mobilization and social movements},
|
||||
pages = {1212--1241},
|
||||
journaltitle = {American journal of sociology},
|
||||
author = {{McCarthy}, John D. and Zald, Mayer N.},
|
||||
urldate = {2015-10-07},
|
||||
date = {1977},
|
||||
note = {04761},
|
||||
file = {ResourceMobilizationAndSocialMovements_McCarthy_Zald_1988.pdf:/home/nathante/.mozilla/firefox/s5qzp5zi.default/zotero/storage/T77UUHCN/ResourceMobilizationAndSocialMovements_McCarthy_Zald_1988.pdf:application/pdf}
|
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}
|
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|
||||
@article{soule_competition_2008,
|
||||
title = {Competition and Resource Partitioning in Three Social Movement Industries},
|
||||
volume = {113},
|
||||
issn = {0002-9602, 1537-5390},
|
||||
url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/587152},
|
||||
doi = {10.1086/587152},
|
||||
pages = {1568--1610},
|
||||
number = {6},
|
||||
journaltitle = {American Journal of Sociology},
|
||||
author = {Soule, Sarah A. and King, Brayden G},
|
||||
urldate = {2015-10-07},
|
||||
date = {2008-05},
|
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langid = {english},
|
||||
note = {00000},
|
||||
file = {CompetitionAndResourcePartitioningSocialMovement_Soule_King_2008.pdf:/home/nathante/.mozilla/firefox/s5qzp5zi.default/zotero/storage/PI48M4X6/CompetitionAndResourcePartitioningSocialMovement_Soule_King_2008.pdf:application/pdf}
|
||||
}
|
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|
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@article{baum_ecological_2006,
|
||||
title = {Ecological approaches to organizations},
|
||||
url = {http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1017085},
|
||||
author = {Baum, Joel {AC} and Shipilov, Andrew V.},
|
||||
urldate = {2015-10-01},
|
||||
date = {2006},
|
||||
file = {SSRN-id1017085.pdf:/home/nathante/.mozilla/firefox/s5qzp5zi.default/zotero/storage/SCT7U5M4/SSRN-id1017085.pdf:application/pdf}
|
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}
|
||||
|
||||
@article{hannan_population_1977,
|
||||
title = {The population ecology of organizations},
|
||||
url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/2777807},
|
||||
pages = {929--964},
|
||||
journal = {American journal of sociology},
|
||||
author = {Hannan, Michael T. and Freeman, John},
|
||||
urldate = {2015-09-29},
|
||||
year = 1977,
|
||||
file = {ThePopulationEcologyOfOrganizations_Hannan_Freeman_1977.pdf:/home/nathante/.mozilla/firefox/s5qzp5zi.default/zotero/storage/FBZP69CD/ThePopulationEcologyOfOrganizations_Hannan_Freeman_1977.pdf:application/pdf}
|
||||
}
|
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@article{wang_impact_2013,
|
||||
title = {The {Impact} of {Membership} {Overlap} on {Growth}: {An} {Ecological} {Competition} {View} of {Online} {Groups}},
|
||||
volume = {24},
|
||||
issn = {1047-7039, 1526-5455},
|
||||
shorttitle = {The {Impact} of {Membership} {Overlap} on {Growth}},
|
||||
url = {http://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/orsc.1120.0756},
|
||||
doi = {10.1287/orsc.1120.0756},
|
||||
language = {en},
|
||||
number = {2},
|
||||
urldate = {2015-10-13},
|
||||
journal = {Organization Science},
|
||||
author = {Wang, Xiaoqing and Butler, Brian S. and Ren, Yuqing},
|
||||
month = apr,
|
||||
year = {2013},
|
||||
note = {00026},
|
||||
pages = {414--431},
|
||||
file = {download.pdf:/home/nathante/.mozilla/firefox/s5qzp5zi.default/zotero/storage/CEZE475Q/download.pdf:application/pdf}
|
||||
}
|
||||
|
||||
@inproceedings{zhu_impact_2014,
|
||||
title = {The impact of membership overlap on the survival of online communities},
|
||||
isbn = {978-1-4503-2473-1},
|
||||
url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2556288.2557213},
|
||||
doi = {10.1145/2556288.2557213},
|
||||
language = {en},
|
||||
urldate = {2015-10-14},
|
||||
publisher = {ACM Press},
|
||||
author = {Zhu, Haiyi and Kraut, Robert E. and Kittur, Aniket},
|
||||
year = {2014},
|
||||
note = {00011},
|
||||
pages = {281--290},
|
||||
file = {p281-zhu.pdf:/home/nathante/.mozilla/firefox/s5qzp5zi.default/zotero/storage/T2MPAS2U/p281-zhu.pdf:application/pdf}
|
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}
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