Title
A social capital perspective on meta-knowledge contribution and social computing
Abstract
Recent years have seen a substantial growth of social computing, where large numbers of individual users share content with others in online communities. Social computing systems have thus led to a profusion of highly heterogeneous data, further exacerbating the traditional problems of knowledge sharing. This has made Meta-knowledge (knowledge about knowledge) important and more widely used, as it helps users locate knowledge easily. However, the reasons for people's meta-knowledge contribution in the social computing context and the extent to which this may differ from traditional knowledge contribution remain largely unexplored. This gap is addressed in the present study. Building on social capital theory, and using a combination of survey and independent system data, we explore what affects individual meta-knowledge contribution on Flickr, a popular photo-sharing service.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.dss.2011.12.009
Decision Support Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
social computing system,knowledge sharing,traditional knowledge contribution,social capital theory,independent system data,heterogeneous data,individual meta-knowledge contribution,social capital perspective,social computing,social computing context,meta-knowledge contribution,social capital
Data mining,Traditional knowledge,Social capital,Knowledge sharing,Computer science,Knowledge management,Social computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
53
1
0167-9236
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
0.55
41
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Oded Nov198463.88
Chen Ye238223.03
Nanda Kumar32198.86