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Patterns in Productive Online Networks: Roles, Interactions, and Communication

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Duality of social and operational relationships; Open source and open content production in networked communities; Open source developer communities

Glossary

Broker:

Is a mediator between different parties in a transaction of material or immaterial assets.

Open innovation:

Is distributedly carried-out innovation by sharing ideas, rewards, and risk.

Open-source software:

Is a publicly produced software that is available in source code form.

Position analyses:

Are network analysis techniques for detecting structural properties of networks, especially groups of actors with similar relationships or roles.

Wiki:

Is a technology that allows users to create and edit website content (online documents) using Web browsers.

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Community interactions have been in the focus of research in several disciplines for a long time, e.g., in ethnology, sociology, or social psychology. With the increase of social activities taking place online, this research has been extended toward...

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science, University of Duisburg-Essen, Lotharstr. 63, 47057, Duisburg, Germany

    Sam Zeini, Tobias Hecking & H. Ulrich Hoppe

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  1. Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. University of Calgary Computer Science, Calgary, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science, University of Duisburg-Essen, Lotharstr. 63, 47057, Duisburg, Germany

    H. Ulrich Hoppe

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

    James Caverlee

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Zeini, S., Hecking, T., Hoppe, H.U. (2017). Patterns in Productive Online Networks: Roles, Interactions, and Communication. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_334-1

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