Benjamin Mako HillinHCI & Design at UWWhy organizational culture matters for online groupsLeaders and scholars of online communities tend of think of community growth as the aggregate effect of inexperienced individuals arriving…Oct 22, 2018Oct 22, 2018
Benjamin Mako HillinHCI & Design at UWWhat we lose when we move from social to market exchangeCouchsurfing and Airbnb are websites that connect people with an extra guest room or couch with random strangers on the Internet who are…Oct 9, 2018Oct 9, 2018
Benjamin Mako HillA natural experiment showing how “wide walls” can support engagement and learningSeymour Papert is credited as saying that tools to support learning should have “high ceilings” and “low floors.” The phrase is meant to…May 23, 2018May 23, 2018
Benjamin Mako HillOpenSym 2017 Program PostmortemThe International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym, formerly WikiSym) is the premier academic venue exclusively focused on…Jan 16, 2018Jan 16, 2018
Benjamin Mako HillinHCI & Design at UWThe Wikipedia AdventureI recently finished a paper that presents a novel social computing system called the Wikipedia Adventure. The system was a gamified…Jun 11, 2017Jun 11, 2017
Benjamin Mako HillinHCI & Design at UWChildren’s Perspectives on Critical Data LiteraciesLast week, we presented a new paper that describes how children are thinking through some of the implications of new forms of data…May 18, 20172May 18, 20172
Benjamin Mako HillinHCI & Design at UWSurviving an “Eternal September:” How an Online Community Managed a Surge of NewcomersAttracting newcomers is among the most widely studied problems in online community research. However, with all the attention paid to…May 9, 2017May 9, 2017
Benjamin Mako HillinHCI & Design at UWNew Dataset: Five Years of Longitudinal Data from ScratchScratch is a block-based programming language created by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group (LLK) at the MIT Media Lab. Scratch gives kids the…Feb 3, 2017Feb 3, 2017