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The '''Cooperation Workshop''' group is a small, user-driven forum for discussing early-stage cooperation research. Several, but not all, of the participants are [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/fellows Berkman Fellows]. Each week, one participant will presents work for discussion and feedback for the group.
The '''Cooperation Workshop''' group is a small, user-driven forum for discussing empirical research on cooperation. Several, but not all, of the participants are fellows at the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/fellows Berkman Center].


Other researchers are welcome to join but we do ask two things of any participants:
Some weeks, we have '''seminar sessions''' which are public talks with an invited guests and will involve a presentation and a seminar discussion over about 75 minutes. They will be clearly marked below and advertised on a series of email lists.


# Each week some contextual writing will be shared with the around. This might be a draft of a paper, an extended abstracted or a description of a project, a paper (perhaps by another author) that provides important background. We expect everybody who joins the group to have done read this material in advance.
Most of our sessions are '''workshop sessions''' where the basic model is that each week, one participant will distribute work for discussion and feedback from the group.  Researchers are welcome to join these workshop sessions but we do ask two things of all the participants:
# We ask that participants, especially those that wish to present, to become regular participants and not just come once.  
 
# Each week some piece of writing will be shared with the group. This might be a draft of a paper, an extended abstracted or a description of a project, or a paper by someone outside of the group (e.g., a classic work) that provides important background. We expect everybody who joins the group to have read this material in advance.
# We ask that participants, especially those that wish to present, to become regular participants and not just come once or twice.
 
If you want to get an idea of what we do, you can check out our previous sessions:
 
* [[Cooperation Workshop/Fall 2011 Sessions|Fall 2011 Sessions]]
* [[Cooperation Workshop/Spring 2012 Sessions|Spring 2012 Sessions]]
* [[Cooperation Workshop/Fall 2012 Sessions|Fall 2012 Sessions]]
* Spring 2013 sessions below
* Spring 2014: [http://etherpad.mit.edu/p/cooperation_2014 Etherpad]
 
Also, you can check out a previous version of this group:
 
* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/cooperation/seminar Cooperation Seminar](2009-2012)


== Accessing Documents ==
== Accessing Documents ==
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== Participants ==
== Participants ==


* Yochai Benkler
* Yochai Benkler  
* [[User:Mayo|Mayo Fuster Morell]]
* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/mfustermorell Mayo Fuster Morell]
* Jérôme Hergueux
* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/jhergueux Jérôme Hergueux]
* Brian Keegan
* [[user:Claserna|Catalina Laserna]]
* [[user:Benjamin Mako Hill|Benjamin Mako Hill]]
* [[user:Benjamin Mako Hill|Benjamin Mako Hill]]
* Andrés Monroy-Hernández
* [http://brianckeegan.com Brian Keegan]
* Justin Reich
* Justin Reich  
* [[user:Aaronshaw|Aaron Shaw]]
* [http://erhardtgraeff.com/ Erhardt Graeff]
* Jennifer Shkabatur
* [http://vivatropolis.com/judith Judith Donath]
* Dennis Y. Tenen
* Heather Whitney
* P. Takis Metaxas
* [http://www.warsystems.hu Bodó Balázs]
* [[user:Dariusz|Dariusz Jemielniak]]
* [http://bit.ly/pmetaxas Panagiotis Takis Metaxas]
 
* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/dmbenfield Dalida María Benfield]
 
* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/mbecker Matt Becker]
 
* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/rdevanesan Ruha Devanesan]
* [http://tirl.org|Charlie DeTar]
* [http://www.nikete.com Nikete]
* [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj SJ]


Add yourself here if you are participating, or want to, but aren't on the list.
Add yourself here if you are participating, or want to, but aren't on the list.


== Fall 2011 Schedule ==
== Sessions Spring 2013 ==
 
=== Session 1: September 22, 2011 ===
 
Because we had an early meeting, we will simply have a reading group for the following paper related to the social impact of decreased communication costs brought about by new technology:
 
* Dittmar, Jeremiah E. 2011. “Information Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of The Printing Press.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 126(3):1133 -1172. Retrieved October 5, 2011. [http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/126/3/1133.full]
 
=== Session 2: September 29, 2011 ===
 
From Aaron:
 
: I'll be talking about some work I've been doing independently as well as in collaboration with Mako and Yochai.
 
:The four page "Project Memo" summarizes where I think we're going with this and how it fits into my personal research agenda. The much longer "Gatekeeping Online" piece is a paper I've been revising and resubmitting lately that should help to frame/illustrate the current state of my thinking on these topics in a more detailed way. For the purposes of our discussion, it is important that you read the short memo.
 
: FWIW, one slightly esoteric theory that frames much of this work is Robert Michels' (1915) "Iron Law of Oligarchy." If you want to know more about it, you can download a copy of the book from the Internet Archive.
 
* [http://epicenter.media.mit.edu/~mako/cooperation/Shaw-Project_Memo-2011-9-26-CRW.pdf Four page "Project Memo"] ('''Core reading''')
* [http://epicenter.media.mit.edu/~mako/cooperation/Shaw_Gatekeeping_Online.pdf Draft Paper on Daily Kos] ('''Contextual''')
* [http://www.archive.org/details/politicalparties00michuoft Michels on the Iron Law] ('''Contextual''')
 
=== Session 3: October 6, 2011 ===
 
Andrés Monroy-Hernández will present an idea for a paper, perhaps for [http://thecommunicationspace.com/forum/topics/cfp-special-issue-of-jcmc-on-participatory-websites-and-user?xg_source=activity a special issue of JCMC] on participatory websites and user-generated content.
 
The goal is to explore these two questions:
 
# What makes some content more likely to be reused or remixed than others?
# When content is remixed, how original are those remixes? What leads to more originality?
 
Readings include:
 
* [http://epicenter.media.mit.edu/~mako/cooperation/monroy-jcmc_paper.pdf Rough attempt at a summary/extended abstract] ('''Core reading''')
* [http://epicenter.media.mit.edu/~mako/cooperation/monroy-chi2012.pdf Paper on a methodology that might be used for answering question 2]. ('''Contextual''')
 
=== Session 4: October 13, 2011 ===
 
Jerome: how (and why) do social preferences appear and evolve at the community level? The promises of behavioral experiments within online communities of practice.
 
Goals of the session:
 
#Present an experimental economist's toolkit for measuring social preferences.
#Reflect on the state of the experimental economics field and on how practicing it online can help push the discipline forward.
#Brainstorm on which online communities of practice would be most suitable for testing hypothesis about the acquisition and evolution of social preferences.
 
Readings:
* The Trust research project on Wikipedia (core: illustrates the methodology and possible research questions)
* The Weirdest people in the World? (contextual: about the current state of the experimental economics field)


Attendance: Mayo
For our meetings in April, we will be meeting in '''WCC 3008 in Wasserstein Hall'''. We do not yet have a room for May so I've left the time unconfirmed. If this new time slot is working out, we will ensure that the group continues to meet at the same time.


=== Session 5: October 20, 2011 ===
=== Tuesday April 2, 2013 10:30-11:30 ===
Brian Keegan will present some recent findings and on-going dissertation research about the structures, dynamics, and practices particular to Wikipedia's coverage of breaking news events. The goal is to explore questions related to:
# How collaborations about breaking news events are distinct from traditional articles
# How the role ecosystem within these collaboration are inhabited and re-create across time and collaborations
# How to better design wikis or other open collaboration systems to support high-tempo knowledge work.


Readings (read one, skim the others):
Feedback for Maura Marx, Rebekah Heacock and Kenny Whitebloom on the '''Digital Public Library of American''' project and ideas about how to design/build for engagement.
* [http://www.brianckeegan.com/papers/WikiSym'11.pdf Description of Japanese earthquake]
* [http://www.brianckeegan.com/papers/not-ICWSM'11.pdf Differences between breaking and non-breaking articles]
* [http://www.brianckeegan.com/papers/not-CSCW'12.pdf Statistical & theoretical elaboration under review]


Attendance: Mayo from the ceiling.
=== Tuesday April 9, 2013 10:30-11:30 ===
=== Tuesday April 16, 2013 10:30-11:30 ===


=== Session 6: October 27, 2011 ===
Aaron (from remote) and [[Mako]] on '''Laboratories of Oligarchy? How the Iron Law Extends to Peer Production'''. A draft and some questions will be circulated to the list soon.


The cooperation group will be a reading group this week reading two papers. Neither paper is long and the second is very short.
=== Tuesday April 23, 2013 10:30-11:30 ===


* Cheshire, Coye. 2011. “Online Trust, Trustworthiness, or Assurance?” Daedalus 140(4):49-58. ([http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/DAED_a_00114 Daedalus] | [http://epicenter.media.mit.edu/~mako/cooperation/Cheshire%20-%202011%20-%20Online%20Trust,%20Trustworthiness,%20or%20Assurance.pdf PDF])
Session to discuss the research on '''comparative advantages of peer production by Marco Berlinguer'''. Marco Berlinguer, italian, is researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and will be visiting Cambridge in April.  
* Rockenbach, Bettina, and Manfred Milinski. 2011. “To qualify as a social partner, humans hide severe punishment, although their observed cooperativeness is decisive.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. ([http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/10/04/1108996108.abstract PNAS] | [http://epicenter.media.mit.edu/~mako/cooperation/Rockenbach%20and%20Milinski%20-%202011%20-%20To%20qualify%20as%20a%20social%20partner,%20humans%20hide%20severe.pdf PDF])


=== Session 7: November 3, 2011 ===
Marco – merging different steams in literature (CBPP, management studies, and social economy studies) - is developing a conceptual framework on the conditions of possibility and of success of CBPP in contrast to other modes of production. Assuming a broader understanding of sustainability of peer production, Marco developed cases studies analyzing the monetarian and non-monetarian sustainability of peer production, looking to how particularly the capability to access, engage and put at work non-monetary resources constitute a condition of possibility and a comparative advantage of peer production in contrast to other forms of production. He would share a short text in advance and explain us the research he has done in the area, and would be happy to discuss the research design for a new project.
''Session canceled due to room space unavailability and many of the participants unable to come.''


=== Session 8: November 10, 2011 ===
=== Tuesday April 30, 2013 4:15 - 6:00p.m ===
Jérôme - ''Cooperation in a Peer Production Economy: Experimental Evidence from Wikipedia''


This week we'll be reading two papers:
=== Tuesday May 7, 2013 4:15 - 6:00p.m ===


# [http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011/proceedings:p163-halfaker Don't Bite the Newbies] by Aaron Halfaker, Aniket Kittur and John Riedl published in [http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011/program:proceedings WikySym 2011]
Mayo Fuster Morell - Research project: P2Pvalue: Techno-social platform for sustainable models and value generation in commons-based peer production
# [http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/scl/papers/swayed/swayed.pdf Swayed by Friends or by the Crowd?] by Zeinab Abbassi, Christina Aperjis, and Bernardo A. Huberman.


=== Session 9: November 17, 2011 ===
Milstein East A in the Wasserstein building
=== NO SESSION: November 24, 2011 (Thanksgiving) ===
4:15 - 6:00p.m
=== Session 10: December 1, 2011 ===


Dariusz!
=== Tuesday May 14, 2013 (4:15 - 6:00p.m) ===


=== Session 11: December 8, 2011 ===
Charlie DeTar -- update on dissertation work and methodological challenges.
''Berkman conference room space may not be available.''
=== Session 11: December 8, 2011 ===
=== Session 12: December 15, 2011 ===
''Berkman conference room space may not be available.''


== Proposed Sessions ==
Location: Milstein East A, WCC.


* Mako: Almost Wikipedia paper on attempts at mobilization on online collaborative encyclopedia projects to discuss paper before I send it off. (Sometime in November/December)
=== Tuesday May 21, 2013 (Time TBD) ===
* Yochai/Mako/Aaron: Barnstar paper.
=== Tuesday May 28, 2013 (Time TBD) ===
* Mayo: Conceptualization and operationalization of governance models, scale of participation and complexity of collaboration: Lessons learned and further development (Sometime in the second term)
[[User:Dariusz|Dariusz]] - Liquid Collaboration (using Bauman to study open collaboration)
* Mayo: How to and does make sense to research the dimension/extension of common-based peer production on the web?. (Sometime in the second term).
* Dariusz: A paper on Essjay case - why Wikipedia rejects credentials verification (December/January)
* Dariusz: A paper on why conflict results in better articles on Wikipedia (December/January)
* Catalina:  Paper on Harvard College courses go online (November 17)


== Papers and Proceedings to read==
=== Tuesday June 4, 2013 (Time TBD) ===
* [http://mfi.uchicago.edu/publications/papers/on-the-economics-and-biology-of-trust.pdf "On the economics and biology of Trust" - E. Fehr]
[[User:Nikete| Nicolas Della Penna (Nikete)]] - Cross Pollinating Polarized Political Discourse

Latest revision as of 00:38, 24 January 2014

Email List: Cooperation Workshop/Mailing list

The Cooperation Workshop group is a small, user-driven forum for discussing empirical research on cooperation. Several, but not all, of the participants are fellows at the Berkman Center.

Some weeks, we have seminar sessions which are public talks with an invited guests and will involve a presentation and a seminar discussion over about 75 minutes. They will be clearly marked below and advertised on a series of email lists.

Most of our sessions are workshop sessions where the basic model is that each week, one participant will distribute work for discussion and feedback from the group. Researchers are welcome to join these workshop sessions but we do ask two things of all the participants:

  1. Each week some piece of writing will be shared with the group. This might be a draft of a paper, an extended abstracted or a description of a project, or a paper by someone outside of the group (e.g., a classic work) that provides important background. We expect everybody who joins the group to have read this material in advance.
  2. We ask that participants, especially those that wish to present, to become regular participants and not just come once or twice.

If you want to get an idea of what we do, you can check out our previous sessions:

Also, you can check out a previous version of this group:

Accessing Documents[edit]

Some of the documents below are password protected. The password is in the mailing list archives. If you need access, you can mail mako@mit.edu for the username and password.

If you want to place documents in the password protected folder to share them with others, email them to mako@mit.edu.

Participants[edit]

Add yourself here if you are participating, or want to, but aren't on the list.

Sessions Spring 2013[edit]

For our meetings in April, we will be meeting in WCC 3008 in Wasserstein Hall. We do not yet have a room for May so I've left the time unconfirmed. If this new time slot is working out, we will ensure that the group continues to meet at the same time.

Tuesday April 2, 2013 10:30-11:30[edit]

Feedback for Maura Marx, Rebekah Heacock and Kenny Whitebloom on the Digital Public Library of American project and ideas about how to design/build for engagement.

Tuesday April 9, 2013 10:30-11:30[edit]

Tuesday April 16, 2013 10:30-11:30[edit]

Aaron (from remote) and Mako on Laboratories of Oligarchy? How the Iron Law Extends to Peer Production. A draft and some questions will be circulated to the list soon.

Tuesday April 23, 2013 10:30-11:30[edit]

Session to discuss the research on comparative advantages of peer production by Marco Berlinguer. Marco Berlinguer, italian, is researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and will be visiting Cambridge in April.

Marco – merging different steams in literature (CBPP, management studies, and social economy studies) - is developing a conceptual framework on the conditions of possibility and of success of CBPP in contrast to other modes of production. Assuming a broader understanding of sustainability of peer production, Marco developed cases studies analyzing the monetarian and non-monetarian sustainability of peer production, looking to how particularly the capability to access, engage and put at work non-monetary resources constitute a condition of possibility and a comparative advantage of peer production in contrast to other forms of production. He would share a short text in advance and explain us the research he has done in the area, and would be happy to discuss the research design for a new project.

Tuesday April 30, 2013 4:15 - 6:00p.m[edit]

Jérôme - Cooperation in a Peer Production Economy: Experimental Evidence from Wikipedia

Tuesday May 7, 2013 4:15 - 6:00p.m[edit]

Mayo Fuster Morell - Research project: P2Pvalue: Techno-social platform for sustainable models and value generation in commons-based peer production

Milstein East A in the Wasserstein building 4:15 - 6:00p.m

Tuesday May 14, 2013 (4:15 - 6:00p.m)[edit]

Charlie DeTar -- update on dissertation work and methodological challenges.

Location: Milstein East A, WCC.

Tuesday May 21, 2013 (Time TBD)[edit]

Tuesday May 28, 2013 (Time TBD)[edit]

Dariusz - Liquid Collaboration (using Bauman to study open collaboration)

Tuesday June 4, 2013 (Time TBD)[edit]

Nicolas Della Penna (Nikete) - Cross Pollinating Polarized Political Discourse

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