Building Successful Online Communities by Robert E. Kraut - ISBN: 9780262528917
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How insights from the social sciences, including social psychology and economics, can improve the design of online communities.

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    328 pages

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    12 February 2016

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Summary

How insights from the social sciences, including social psychology and economics, can improve the design of online communities.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 th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262528917
ISBN-10:0262528916
Author:Robert E. Kraut, Paul Resnick, Sara Kiesler, Moira Burke, Yan Chen, Niki Kittur, Joseph Konstan, Yuqing Ren, John Riedl
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:328
Release Date:12 February 2016
Weight:530g
Dimensions:229mm x 178mm x 14mm
Series:The MIT Press
About The Author

Robert E. Kraut

Robert E. Kraut is Herbert A. Simon Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University.Paul Resnick is the Michael D Cohen Collegiate Professor of Information at the University of Michigan.Sara Kiesler is Professor of Human Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University. She has been elected into the CHI Academy by The Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) in recognition of her outstanding leadership and service in the field of computer-human interaction.

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