Computer-supported collaborative questioning. Regimes of online sociality on Quora

Author

Rughinis, Razvan ; Marinescu-Nenciu, Alina Petra ; Matei, Stefania ; Rughis, Cosima

Author_Institution

Fac. of Autom. Control & Comput. Sci., Univ. Politeh. of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

fYear

2014

fDate

18-21 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

We examine online sociality in Quora, a collaborative Q&A platform, through statistical analysis of 248 answers. Quora members interact through technology and with technology, creating different regimes of sociality: a regime of visibility, in which users and technology assemble the ranked list of answers; a regime of recognition, in which members rely on answers and authors´ identity to acknowledge value; a regime of interaction, in which members comment on posted answers. We classify answers in three clusters: Sympa, Inspire and Casual. Answer types are related to the socio-technical creation of sociality regimes.

Keywords

groupware; question answering (information retrieval); statistical analysis; Casual; Inspire; Quora; Sympa; collaborative Q&A platform; computer-supported collaborative questioning; interaction regime; online sociality regimes; recognition regime; statistical analysis; visibility regime; Collaboration; Communities; Educational institutions; Internet; Predictive models; Production; Sociology; Quora; collaborative social media; network sociality; regimes of online sociality; tehnologically mediated sociality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2014 9th Iberian Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CISTI.2014.6876946

Filename

6876946