Traditional activities change in surprising ways when computer-mediated communication becomes a component of the activity system. In this descriptive study, we leverage two perspectives on social activity to understand the experiences of individuals who became active collaborators in Wikipedia, a prolific, cooperatively-authored online encyclopedia. Legitimate peripheral participation provides a lens for understanding participation in a community as an adaptable process that evolves over time. We use ideas from activity theory as a framework to describe our results. Finally, we describe how activity on the Wikipedia stands in striking contrast to traditional publishing and suggests a new paradigm for collaborative systems.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 bryant05wiki
%A Bryant, Susan L.
%A Forte, Andrea
%A Bruckman, Amy
%B GROUP '05: Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
%C New York, NY, USA
%D 2005
%I ACM Press
%K research.conceptual.wiki research.web20.communities research.ir humanities.communication info.refs.libraries
%P 1--10
%R http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1099203.1099205
%T Becoming Wikipedian: Transformation of Participation in a Collaborative Online Encyclopedia
%U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1099203.1099205
%X Traditional activities change in surprising ways when computer-mediated communication becomes a component of the activity system. In this descriptive study, we leverage two perspectives on social activity to understand the experiences of individuals who became active collaborators in Wikipedia, a prolific, cooperatively-authored online encyclopedia. Legitimate peripheral participation provides a lens for understanding participation in a community as an adaptable process that evolves over time. We use ideas from activity theory as a framework to describe our results. Finally, we describe how activity on the Wikipedia stands in striking contrast to traditional publishing and suggests a new paradigm for collaborative systems.
%@ 1-59593-223-2
@inproceedings{bryant05wiki,
abstract = {Traditional activities change in surprising ways when computer-mediated communication becomes a component of the activity system. In this descriptive study, we leverage two perspectives on social activity to understand the experiences of individuals who became active collaborators in Wikipedia, a prolific, cooperatively-authored online encyclopedia. Legitimate peripheral participation provides a lens for understanding participation in a community as an adaptable process that evolves over time. We use ideas from activity theory as a framework to describe our results. Finally, we describe how activity on the Wikipedia stands in striking contrast to traditional publishing and suggests a new paradigm for collaborative systems.},
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address = {New York, NY, USA},
author = {Bryant, Susan L. and Forte, Andrea and Bruckman, Amy},
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booktitle = {GROUP '05: Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work},
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publisher = {ACM Press},
timestamp = {2009-06-25T16:49:28.000+0200},
title = {Becoming Wikipedian: Transformation of Participation in a Collaborative Online Encyclopedia},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1099203.1099205},
year = 2005
}