Paper Info
Title
\"Welcome!\": social and psychological predictors of volunteer socializers in online communities
Abstract
Volunteer socializers are members of a community who voluntarily help newcomers become familiar with the popular practices and attitudes of the community. In this paper, we explore the social and psychological predictors of volunteer socializers on reddit, an online social news-sharing community. Through a survey of over 1000 reddit users, we found that social identity, prosocial-orientation and generalized reciprocity are all predictors of socializers in the community. Interestingly, a user's tenure with the online community has a quadratic effect on volunteer socialization behaviors -- new and long-time members are both more likely to help newcomers than those in between. We conclude with design implications for motivating users to help newcomers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2441776.2441870
CSCW
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
reddit user,volunteer socializers,volunteer socialization behavior,design implication,psychological predictor,online community,online social news-sharing community,social identity,popular practice,generalized reciprocity,long-time member
Conference
13
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.07
15
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gary Hsieh152147.35
Youyang Hou2303.20
Ian Chen3131.07
Khai N. Truong42002162.82