Title :
Elite size and resilience impact on global system structuration in social media
Author :
Matei, Sorin Adam ; Wutao Tan ; Zhu, Mingda ; Chuanhai Liu ; Bertino, Elisa ; Foote, Jeremy
Author_Institution :
Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN, USA
Abstract :
The paper examines the role played by the most productive members of social media systems on leading the project and influencing the degree of project structuration. The paper focuses on findings of a large computational social science project that examines Wikipedia.1
Keywords :
project management; social networking (online); social sciences computing; Wikipedia; computational social science project; elite size; global system structuration; project structuration; resilience impact; social media systems; Collaboration; Communities; Electronic publishing; Encyclopedias; Internet; Media; Wikipedia; division of labor; elite; entropy; equality; role;
Conference_Titel :
Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), 2014 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Minneapolis, MN
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-5157-4
DOI :
10.1109/CTS.2014.6867535
