[esocialaction] FW: The Role of Incentives in Sustaining Community

[Dearden, Andrew M]

Hi All

This seems like an important issue for Technology and Social Action. Is anyone interested in exploring the question?




Andy

Andy Dearden
Communications & Computing Research Centre
ACES
Harmer Building
Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield
S1 1WB
UK

email: a.m.dearden at shu.ac.uk
Tel: 0114 225 2916
Fax: 0114 225 3161 

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Subject: CFP: The Role of Incentives in Sustaining Community


*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (Please forward as appropriate) ***

Group 2005 Workshop on: "Sustaining Community: The role
and design of incentive mechanisms in online systems"

At Group 05: International Conference on Supporting Group Work 6-9 November 2005, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA

* THE TOPIC *
What makes communities grow and prosper, or wither and die? In this workshop we'll explore this question by taking a close look at
how incentive structures interact with short and long term viability. We'll address questions such as "What motivates participants
to contribute?" "What social and technical mechanisms support (or deter) contribution?" and "How and to what extent can designers
design sustainable communities?"

* THE CONTENT *
We are interested in open source communities, community-managed discussion spaces like Slashdot, social network-based communities
such as Orkut, open content communities like Wikipedia, group blogs, "real world" communities, and other similar environments.

* THE PARTICIPANTS *
Our hope is to attract participants from a wide range of disciplines including anthropology, computer science, economics,
interaction design, psychology, sociology, and so on.

* THE FORMAT *
Our goal is to raise questions and begin answering them from the divers directions supplied by the approaches of the attendees.
The workshop will be highly interactive with minimal presentation of the position papers.

* TO SUBMIT *
See http://www.acm.org/sigs/siggroup/conferences/group05/SC.html for a complete description and submission information

* IMPORTANT DATES *
12 September - Position papers due
24 September - Accept/Reject decisions made
06 November  - Workshop

Note: The first two dates are provisional; and may change once the early registration deadline is announced.

* THE ORGANIZERS *
Jason Ellis, Christine Halverson, Tom Erickson
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

* FOR MORE INFORMATION *
- Full description and information on submission requirements see
     http://www.acm.org/sigs/siggroup/conferences/group05/SC.html
- General information about the Group 2005 conference see
     http://www.acm.org/sigs/siggroup/conferences/group05/
- To contact the organizers write to
     group-incentives at jellis.net

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