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Impact of Self-Disclosure on Newcomers in Online Communities
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Farzan, Rosta |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | User-generated online communities such as online discussion boards have become an important element of life in information society. However, their success is accompanied with challenges. Particularly, online communities’ high reliance on user-generate content makes ensuring a continuous flow of newcomers vital to their existence. Newcomers face various difficulties due to their lack of commitment and familiarity with the community and many online communities experience high quitting rate of newcomers. In the current work, we aim to study how self-disclosure can be used as a mechanism to encourage more effort and commitment from newcomers. We present our results from exploring the relationship between selfdisclosure and newcomers’ effort and commitment in an online community. Our results show that selfdisclosure has significant positive associations with newcomers’ subsequent effort in the community. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.pitt.edu/~dil16/papers/363_ready.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |