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Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based Social Design
- https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/building-successful-online-communities - publisher's site
- https://books.google.com/books?id=lIvBMYVxWJYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false - Google Books
Overview from the publishers web site.
Online communities are among the most popular destinations on the Internet, but not all online communities are equally successful. For every flourishing Facebook, there is a moribund Friendster—not to mention the scores of smaller social networking sites that never attracted enough members to be viable. This book offers lessons from theory and empirical research in the social sciences that can help improve the design of online communities.
The authors draw on the literature in psychology, economics, and other social sciences, as well as their own research, translating general findings into useful design claims. They explain, for example, how to encourage information contributions based on the theory of public goods, and how to build members’ commitment based on theories of interpersonal bond formation. For each design claim, they offer supporting evidence from theory, experiments, or observational studies.
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I have found this book to be really useful. It is designed for people who want to know something about the research supporting effective online communities - but not too much. Maybe like "How People Learn".
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I would really love to do a book club on this one. Very relevant to QUBES.