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| :'''Email:''' [[Cooperation Workshop/Mailing list]]
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| :'''Location:''' Berkman Conference Room / 23 Everett Street / Second Floor / Cambridge
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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.
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| Other researchers are welcome to join but we do ask two things of any participants:
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| # 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.
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| # We ask that participants, especially those that wish to present, to become regular participants and not just come once.
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| == Accessing Documents ==
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| Some of the documents below are password protected. The password is in the mailing list archives. If you need access, you can mail [mailto:mako@mit.edu mako@mit.edu] for the username and password.
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| If you want to place documents in the password protected folder to share them with others, email them to [mailto:mako@mit.edu mako@mit.edu].
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| == Participants ==
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| * Yochai Benkler
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| * [[User:Mayo|Mayo Fuster Morell]]
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| * Jérôme Hergueux
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| * Brian Keegan
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| * [[user:Benjamin Mako Hill|Benjamin Mako Hill]]
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| * Andrés Monroy-Hernández
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| * Justin Reich
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| * [[user:Aaronshaw|Aaron Shaw]]
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| * Jennifer Shkabatur
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| * Dennis Y. Tenen
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| * P. Takis Metaxas
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| * [[user:Dariusz|Dariusz Jemielniak]]
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| Add yourself here if you are participating, or want to, but aren't on the list.
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| == Fall 2011 Schedule ==
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| === Session 1: September 22, 2011 ===
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| 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:
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| * 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]
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| === Session 2: September 29, 2011 ===
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| From Aaron:
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| : I'll be talking about some work I've been doing independently as well as in collaboration with Mako and Yochai.
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| :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.
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| : 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.
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| * [http://epicenter.media.mit.edu/~mako/cooperation/Shaw-Project_Memo-2011-9-26-CRW.pdf Four page "Project Memo"] ('''Core reading''')
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| * [http://epicenter.media.mit.edu/~mako/cooperation/Shaw_Gatekeeping_Online.pdf Draft Paper on Daily Kos] ('''Contextual''')
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| * [http://www.archive.org/details/politicalparties00michuoft Michels on the Iron Law] ('''Contextual''')
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| === Session 3: October 6, 2011 ===
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| 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.
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| The goal is to explore these two questions:
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| # What makes some content more likely to be reused or remixed than others?
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| # When content is remixed, how original are those remixes? What leads to more originality?
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| Readings include:
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| * [http://epicenter.media.mit.edu/~mako/cooperation/monroy-jcmc_paper.pdf Rough attempt at a summary/extended abstract] ('''Core reading''')
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| * [http://epicenter.media.mit.edu/~mako/cooperation/monroy-chi2012.pdf Paper on a methodology that might be used for answering question 2]. ('''Contextual''')
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| === Session 4: October 13, 2011 ===
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| Jerome: how (and why) do social preferences appear and evolve at the community level? The promises of behavioral experiments within online communities of practice.
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| Goals of the session:
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| #Present an experimental economist's toolkit for measuring social preferences.
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| #Reflect on the state of the experimental economics field and on how practicing it online can help push the discipline forward.
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| #Brainstorm on which online communities of practice would be most suitable for testing hypothesis about the acquisition and evolution of social preferences.
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| Readings:
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| * The Trust research project on Wikipedia (core: illustrates the methodology and possible research questions)
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| * The Weirdest people in the World? (contextual: about the current state of the experimental economics field)
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| Attendance: Mayo
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| === Session 5: October 20, 2011 ===
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| 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:
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| # How collaborations about breaking news events are distinct from traditional articles
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| # How the role ecosystem within these collaboration are inhabited and re-create across time and collaborations
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| # How to better design wikis or other open collaboration systems to support high-tempo knowledge work.
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| Readings (read one, skim the others):
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| * [http://www.brianckeegan.com/papers/WikiSym'11.pdf Description of Japanese earthquake]
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| * [http://www.brianckeegan.com/papers/not-ICWSM'11.pdf Differences between breaking and non-breaking articles]
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| * [http://www.brianckeegan.com/papers/not-CSCW'12.pdf Statistical & theoretical elaboration under review]
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| Attendance: Mayo from the ceiling.
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| === Session 6: October 27, 2011 ===
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| The cooperation group will be a reading group this week reading two papers. Neither paper is long and the second is very short.
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| * 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])
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| * 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])
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| === Session 7: November 3, 2011 ===
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| ''Berkman conference room space may not be available.''
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| === Session 8: November 10, 2011 ===
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| === Session 9: November 17, 2011 ===
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| === NO SESSION: November 24, 2011 (Thanksgiving) ===
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| === Session 10: December 1, 2011 ===
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| === Session 11: December 8, 2011 ===
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| ''Berkman conference room space may not be available.''
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| === Session 11: December 8, 2011 ===
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| === Session 12: December 15, 2011 ===
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| ''Berkman conference room space may not be available.''
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| == Proposed Sessions ==
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| * 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)
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| * Yochai/Mako/Aaron: Barnstar paper.
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| * Mayo: Conceptualization and operationalization of governance models, scale of participation and complexity of collaboration: Lessons learned and further development (Sometime in the second term)
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| * 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).
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| == Papers and Proceedings to read==
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| * [http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011/program:proceedings WikySym 2011 proceedings]
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| ** "Don't Bite the Newbies" [http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011/proceedings:p163-halfaker]
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