:'''Location:''' Berkman Conference Room / 23 Everett Street / Second Floor / Cambridge
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 distribute work for discussion and feedback from 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:
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
=== Session 5: October 20, 2011 ===
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):
* [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]
=== Session 6: October 27, 2011 ===
The cooperation group will be a reading group this week reading two papers. Neither paper is long and the second is very short.
* 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 ===
''Session canceled due to room space unavailability and many of the participants unable to come.''
=== Session 8: November 10, 2011 ===
This week we'll be reading two papers:
# [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]
# [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 ===
Three items this week are from Catalina:
# [http://ikit.org/fulltext/inpressCollectiveCog.pdf This article] has been very inspirational in my work. (contextual)
# [http://epicenter.media.mit.edu/~mako/cooperation/claserna-final_report_submitted.docx The report to the funders of the Onigaming project]. (main reading)
# [http://epicenter.media.mit.edu/~mako/cooperation/claserna-intellectual_research.pdf A somewhat dated statement] of my intellectual interests and concerns. (contextual)
Also, Catalina posted the following questions to the email list:
# In what ways is an analysis at two levels, i.e., the "socio-cognitive dynamics" and the "technological dynamics" sufficient to capture the contrast between doing inquiry in a cybercy environment like Knowledge Forum versus a classroom that only uses non-digital media? What could be improved? (See the Scardemalia reading and her Toronto based organization IKIT) Since I used Knowledge Forum for a number of years in my own teaching at Harvard I will bring a vivid example.
#In what ways does an "ethnographic stance" enable researchers to work under conditions of cultural discontinuity? I will provide examples of the kinds of "teaching for Understanding- Anishinabee style" units developed by the Onigaming teachers. See the report to funders prepared by my former student and co-researcher Brian King. For more context on the professional development program we implemented see Harvard's WIDE and ALPS websites. For non-educators, note this work comes from Howard Gardner's Project Zero.)
#In what ways did the strategy of fostering "a community of intentional innovators" advance a collective openness towards innovation at Onigaming? (see the report to funders)
# What aspects of "cybercy" are apparent in the Onigaming case? (See my piece on "Encounters with cybercy and the Trojan Mouse.")
=== NO SESSION: November 24, 2011 (Thanksgiving) ===
=== Session 10: December 1, 2011 ===
Dariusz!
Trust & credibility on Wikipedia (the Essjay case)
=== Session 11: December 8, 2011 ===
Goal of the session – 8th December 2011
Title: Participation in collaborative communities: Main organizational principles. Is there central roles? Is there dependencies between the several forms and degrees of participation?
In previous session (concretely in the Nov 10) emerged the discussion if there is and which would be the "central" forms of participation in common based peer production / collaborative communities. Could we point to a specific profile of contributions as the central ones? Would be the key contributors the one with higher number of editors or the ones contributing more content independently of the number of "edits"?. Mako was pointing that according to previous research on Wikipedia (which was the reference?) there is a profile of participation in Wikipedia that is characterized by few contributions (in number of edits) but contributing the main base of the content of an article. However, the profile of contributors generally most valuated (by the community and/or researchers) are the one with higher number of edits.
With the concept of "participation as an ecosystem" Mayo tried to "break" the search of key type of contributions and try to point out that it is the ability to combine and create an ecosystem logic between different types and degrees of participation in collaborative communities what is key in terms of allowing the collaborative communities scale in participation. In this regard, the driven question would not be, which is the key contribution, but which is the role of each profile of participation (strong, weak and “non” contributors; contributors on content, contributions organizing events, contributions doing research etc.) and if and how they would reinforce each other and benefit the process.
This section will consist first in a brainstorming by each attendee of which would be in her or his view the three main characteristics of participation in CBPP (reinforcing or in contrast to the 10 presented in the reading); to then argue around the question if there is some distinctive forms of participation (in typology and in degree of involvement), if between them it could be distinguish a key form of participation - central for the process, or/and if it could be identify an ecosystem perspective of different forms each playing an role and reinforcing each other.
The '''suggested readings''' is a Chapter of Mayo Fuster Morell thesis. FUSTER MORELL, Mayo (2010). Chapter VI: Participation in online creation communities’ platforms. Governance of online creation communities. Provision of platforms for participation for the building of digital commons, (Unpublished dissertation), Department Social and Political Science, European University Institute, Florence. [http://epicenter.media.mit.edu/~mako/cooperation/Participation_as_an_ecosystem_MFM_Cooperation_Group.pdf Download Chapter] (Note: the file is password protected. The username and password are available in the email list archives)
* '''Short reading option''': Read only section “b) Participation is possible in multiple forms and to different degrees” (Pag. 6-12) and “VI. II. Conclusions” (Pag. 25-29).
Additionally, you can find the bibliography of the thesis if you want to consult bibliographic references. [http://epicenter.media.mit.edu/~mako/cooperation/Biblio_Lista_Thesis_MayoFusterMorell.rtf Download Thesis Bibliographic references]
Apart of the value of addressing these questions for the Cooperation group members, the session will be useful for Mayo in order to review the Chapter which might be published as part of a book containing her whole thesis or as an article. In this regard, any suggestion for improvement would be must appreciated by Mayo.
Finally, the session will also consist of a collective sharing of a cake to celebrate Mayo & Mako's birthday.
=== Session 12: December 15, 2011 ===
''Berkman conference room space may not be available.''
=== Session 13: December 22, 2011 ===
=== Session 14: December 29, 2011 ===
=== Session 15: January 5, 2012 ===
=== Session 16: January 12, 2012 ===
=== Session 17: January 19, 2012 ===
=== Session 18: January 26, 2012 ===
=== Session 19: February 2, 2012 ===
=== Session 20: February 9, 2012 ===
=== Session 21: February 16, 2012 ===
=== Session 22: February 23, 2012 ===
=== Session 23: March 1, 2012 ===
=== Session 24: March 8, 2012 ===
=== Session 25: March 15, 2012 ===
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.
Spring break
=== Tuesday April 2, 2013 10:30-11:30 ===
=== Session 26: March 22, 2012 ===
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.
=== Session 27: March 29, 2012 ===
=== Tuesday April 9, 2013 10:30-11:30 ===
=== Tuesday April 16, 2013 10:30-11:30 ===
=== Session 28: April 5, 2012 ===
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.
=== Session 29: April 12, 2012 ===
=== Tuesday April 23, 2013 10:30-11:30 ===
=== Session 30: April 19, 2012 ===
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.
=== Session 31: April 26, 2012 ===
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 32: May 3, 2012 ===
=== Tuesday April 30, 2013 4:15 - 6:00p.m ===
Jérôme - ''Cooperation in a Peer Production Economy: Experimental Evidence from Wikipedia''
=== Session 33: May 10, 2012 ===
=== Tuesday May 7, 2013 4:15 - 6:00p.m ===
=== Session 34: May 17, 2012 ===
Mayo Fuster Morell - Research project: P2Pvalue: Techno-social platform for sustainable models and value generation in commons-based peer production
=== Session 35: May 24, 2012 ===
Milstein East A in the Wasserstein building
4:15 - 6:00p.m
=== Session 36: May 31, 2012 ===
=== Tuesday May 14, 2013 (4:15 - 6:00p.m) ===
=== Sessions June? ===
Charlie DeTar -- update on dissertation work and methodological challenges.
== 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).
* Andreea/Dariusz: Let's agree to disagree: why conflict results in better articles on Wikipedia (December/January)
== 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
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:
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
