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Why organizational culture matters for online groups

Leaders and scholars of online communities tend of think of community growth as the aggregate effect of inexperienced individuals arriving…

Oct 22, 2018

Why organizational culture matters for online groups

Oct 22, 2018

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HCI & Design at UW

What we lose when we move from social to market exchange

Couchsurfing and Airbnb are websites that connect people with an extra guest room or couch with random strangers on the Internet who are…

Oct 9, 2018

What we lose when we move from social to market exchange

Oct 9, 2018

Benjamin Mako Hill

A natural experiment showing how “wide walls” can support engagement and learning

Seymour Papert is credited as saying that tools to support learning should have “high ceilings” and “low floors.” The phrase is meant to…

May 23, 2018

A natural experiment showing how “wide walls” can support engagement and learning

May 23, 2018

Benjamin Mako Hill

OpenSym 2017 Program Postmortem

The International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym, formerly WikiSym) is the premier academic venue exclusively focused on…

Jan 16, 2018

OpenSym 2017 Program Postmortem

Jan 16, 2018

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The Wikipedia Adventure

I recently finished a paper that presents a novel social computing system called the Wikipedia Adventure. The system was a gamified…

Jun 11, 2017

The Wikipedia Adventure

Jun 11, 2017

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Children’s Perspectives on Critical Data Literacies

Last week, we presented a new paper that describes how children are thinking through some of the implications of new forms of data…

May 18, 2017

Children’s Perspectives on Critical Data Literacies

May 18, 2017

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Surviving an “Eternal September:” How an Online Community Managed a Surge of Newcomers

Attracting newcomers is among the most widely studied problems in online community research. However, with all the attention paid to…

May 9, 2017

Surviving an “Eternal September:” How an Online Community Managed a Surge of Newcomers

May 9, 2017

Benjamin Mako Hill
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HCI & Design at UW

New Dataset: Five Years of Longitudinal Data from Scratch

Scratch is a block-based programming language created by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group (LLK) at the MIT Media Lab. Scratch gives kids the…

Feb 3, 2017

New Dataset: Five Years of Longitudinal Data from Scratch

Feb 3, 2017

Benjamin Mako Hill

Benjamin Mako Hill

I'm a rebel with rather too many causes. Guilty by association with UW, Berkman Klein, FSF, Wikimedia, Debian, Ubuntu, and others.

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