{"id":1084,"date":"2018-01-26T13:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T18:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2018-02-26T12:01:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T17:01:53","slug":"gerald-kane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/gerald-kane\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2 \u2013 Gerald C. Kane to Present \u201cWikipedia: The Canary in the Coal Mine for Online Collaboration\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Wikipedia: The Canary in the Coal Mine for Online Collaboration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">by<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b>Gerald C. Kane<\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Professor of Information Systems<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Carroll School of\u00a0Management, Boston College<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Friday, February 2, 2018<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">10:30 AM \u2013 noon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Speakman Hall Suite 200<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_4201483139790201219xmsonormal\">Many companies are increasingly seeking to use online communities for collaboration and innovation.\u00a0 Perhaps the most robust of these is Wikipedia, the open online encyclopedia that hosts millions of articles in hundreds of languages.\u00a0 Wikipedia preserves the entire history of collaboration that has taken place over the past 15 years, providing a remarkable environment for studying online collaboration and knowledge creation.\u00a0 While companies may not be interested in creating a Wikipedia-type platform, per se, the lessons learned in such a massive and robust online community can provide important insights for how to support innovation within companies (i.e. among employees) or across company boundaries (i.e. between employees and customers).<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_4201483139790201219xmsonormal\">This presentation provides an overview of a 5-year research program investigating collaboration on Wikipedia using multiple methods (funded by National Science Foundation CAREER Award #0953285).\u00a0 While several of these papers have already been published in top journals, several are still under review.\u00a0 Nevertheless, the individual papers often overlook the overarching logic and insights provided by the integrated research program. Taken together, these studies suggest that collaboration on Wikipedia can be understood as a complex adaptive system (CAS), which are defined by several features, such as non-linearities, co-evolution, self-organization, and emergent dynamics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia: The Canary in the Coal Mine for Online Collaboration by Gerald C. Kane Professor of Information Systems Carroll School of\u00a0Management, Boston College Friday, February 2, 2018 10:30 AM \u2013 noon Speakman Hall Suite 200 &nbsp; Abstract Many companies are increasingly seeking to use online communities for collaboration and innovation.\u00a0 Perhaps the most robust of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11079,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22650,5525,783186,402,4658],"class_list":{"0":"post-1084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-boston-college","8":"tag-complex-adaptive-system","9":"tag-online-collaboration","10":"tag-online-communities","11":"tag-wikipedia","12":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11079"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/seminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}