Introduction to Crowdsourcing Content Production and Online Knowledge Repositories Minitrack

As various forms of collaboration are enabled (and constrained) by the affordances available in social media, researchers are investigating a range of issues including: 1) the diverse ways in which people collaborate to create, manage, curate and manipulate online content and how these activities affect digital repositories, 2) how those who manage these repositories are responding to the co-creation of online content 3) the dynamics of crowd sourced online collaborations and online communities of practice, and 4) the ways in which we can best describe the socio-technical interaction networks that facilitate and inhibit mass knowledge production. This minitrack focuses on online interactions for knowledge production on crowd sourced sites.