Publications

Accepted/Forthcoming Publications

 * , Jason, Yip, Michael, Preston, and Devin, Dillon. 2020. "The 4As: Ask, Adapt, Author, Analyze AI Literacy Framework for Families." Journal of Design and Science, 2020.

Theses and Dissertations

 * . 2022. "Ecology of Online Communities." Ph.D. Dissertation, Seattle, WA: University of Washington. https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/48227
 * . 2020. “Challenges and Adaptations to Technological Change in Online Communities.” Master of Arts Thesis, Seattle, Washington: University of Washington. https://digital.lib.washington.edu:443/researchworks/handle/1773/45469.
 * . “The Formation and Growth of Collaborative Online Organizations.” PhD dissertation, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2359334683?accountid=14784.
 * . 2019. “Production Misalignment: A Threat to Public Knowledge.” Master of Arts Thesis, Seattle, Washington: University of Washington. https://digital.lib.washington.edu:443/researchworks/handle/1773/45156.
 * . 2019. “Three Studies on Technological Support for Participation in Volunteer Communities.” PhD dissertation, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2314065372?accountid=14784.
 * . 2017. “Density Dependence without Resource Partitioning on an Online Petitioning Platform.” Master of Arts Thesis, Seattle, Washington: University of Washington. https://digital.lib.washington.edu:443/researchworks/handle/1773/41690.

2023

 * ,, and . 2023. Communication networks do not predict success in attempts at peer production. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 28(3). https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmad002

2022

 * ,, and . 2022. How Interest-Driven Content Creation Shapes Opportunities for Informal Learning in Scratch: A Case Study on Novices’ Use of Data Structures. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22), April 29-May 5, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3502124
 * . 2022. A systems approach to studying online communities. Media and Communication, 10(2), 29–40. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v10i2.5042
 * Hagar, Nick, and . 2022. Concentration without cumulative advantage: The distribution of news source attention in online communities. Journal of Communication, 72(6), 675–686. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqac032
 * and . 2022. Rules and rule-making in the five largest Wikipedias. In Proc. 16th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). Atlanta, Georgia.
 * ,, , . 2022. The social embeddedness of peer production: A comparative qualitative analysis of three Indian language Wikipedia editions. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘22), April 29-May 5, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 18 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501832
 * Sharif, Ather,, and Miranda Wei. “Styx++: Reliable Data Access and Availability Using a Hybrid Paxos and Chain Replication Protocol.” CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (2022): 7 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519635
 * ,, and Eszter Hargittai. 2022. Participation inequality in the gig economy. Information, Communication & Society, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2085611
 * and . 2022. Identifying Competitive and Mutualistic Relationships Between Online Communities. In ''International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2022). 12 pages. https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/19352/19124
 * ,, Isabella Brown, Nicole McGinnis, Laura (Alia) Levi, and . 2022. No Community Can Do Everything: Why People Participate in Similar Online Communities. In Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW). https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3512908

2021

 * (2021) "Underproduction: An approach for measuring risk in open source software." 28th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER). pp. 388-399, doi: 10.1109/SANER50967.2021.00043.
 * ,, and Eszter Hargittai. 2021. "Generous Attitudes and Online Participation." Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 1. https://doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2021.008
 * , and, 2021. "The hidden costs of requiring accounts: Quasi-experimental evidence from peer production." Communication Research 48(6): 771-795. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0093650220910345.
 * and . 2021. "Why do people participate in small online communities?". Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 5(CSCW2), 462:1-462:25. https://doi.org/10.1145/3479606
 * and Eszter Hargittai. 2021 "Do the Online Activities of Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers Mirror Those of the General Population? A Comparison of Two Survey Samples." International Journal of Communication, 15: 4383-4398. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/16942
 * ,, and Aaron Halfaker. 2021. "Effects of Algorithmic Flagging on Fairness: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Wikipedia." Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW1, Article 56 (April 2021), 27 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3449130

2020

 * Chau Tran,, Andrea Forte, , Rachel Greenstadt. 2020. "Are anonymity-seekers just like everybody else? An analysis of contributions to Wikipedia from Tor." IEEE Security & Privacy (Oakland).
 * , and Mark Zachry. 2020. "Building community knowledge in online competitions: Motivation, practices and challenges." Proceedings of ACM Human-Computer Interaction 4, CSCW2, Article 179. https://doi.org/10.1145/3415250.
 * , Ziwen Zeng, Maysnow Liu, and Steven Dow. 2020. "Critique me: Exploring how creators publicly request feedback in an online critique community." Proceedings of ACM Human-Computer Interaction 4, CSCW2, Article 161. https://doi.org/10.1145/3415232.
 * 2020. "Characterizing online vandalism: A rational choice perspective." 11th International Conference on Social Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1145/3400806.3400813.
 * ,, and Andrés Monroy-Hernández. 2020. "Engaging Learners in Constructing Constructionist Environments." In Designing Constructionist Futures: The Art, Theory, and Practice of Learning Designs, edited by Nathan Holbert, Matthew Berland, and Yasmin Kafai. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
 * . 2020. "Hiding Traces of Status Seeking: Contradictory Tagging Strategies on Instagram." Social Media + Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120937318.
 * Hargittai, Eszter, and, 2020. "Comparing Internet Experiences and Prosociality in Amazon Mechanical Turk and Population-Based Survey Samples." Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. Volume 6. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F2378023119889834. Supplementary data, code, and survey instrument published in parallel: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UFL6MI.
 * , and . 2020. "Studying Populations of Online Communities." In The Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication, edited by Brooke Foucault Welles and Sandra González-Bailón, 174–93. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460518.013.8
 * , and . 2020. "The most important laboratory for social scientific and computing research in history." In Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution, edited by Joseph M. Jr. Reagle and Jackie L. Koerner. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
 * Kiene, Charles and . 2020. "Who uses bots? A statistical analysis of bot usage in moderation teams." In Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3382960.
 * Ko, Amy J., Alannah Oleson, Neil Ryan, Yim Register, Benjamin Xie, Mina Tari, Matthew Davidson,, and Dastyni Loksa. 2020. "It is time for more critical CS education." Communications of the ACM 63, 11 (November 2020), 31–33. https://doi.org/10.1145/3424000.
 * Shorey, Samantha, {{c|Benjamin Mako Hill}, and Samuel Woolley. 2021. "From hanging out to figuring it out: Socializing online as a pathway to computational thinking". New Media & Society, 23(8), 2327–2344. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820923674
 * Tran, Chau,, Andrea Forte, , and Rachel Greenstadt. 2020. "Are anonymity-seekers just like everybody else? An analysis of contributions to Wikipedia from Tor." In 2020 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), 1:974–90. San Francisco, California: IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/SP40000.2020.00053.

2019

 * , Nora McDonald, Stephanie Bankes, Joseph Zhang, Rachel Greenstadt, Andrea Forte, . 2019. "A Forensic Qualitative Analysis of Contributions to Wikipedia from Anonymity Seeking Users". Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 3. CSCW. Article 53. https://doi.org/10.1145/3359155
 * , and . 2019. “Studying Populations of Online Organizations.” In Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication, edited by Sandra González-Bailón and Brooke Foucault Welles. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190460518.013.8. [Preprint/Draft PDF].
 * Jiang, Jialun “Aaron”,, Middler, Skyler, Brubaker, Jed R., and Fiesler, Casey. 2019. Moderation Challenges in Voice-based Online Communities on Discord. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 3, CSCW , Article 55 (November 2019), 23 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3359157.
 * , Jialun “Aaron” Jiang, and . 2019. “Technological Frames and User Innovation: Exploring Technological Change in Community Moderation Teams.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 3, CSCW, Article 44 (November 2019), 23 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3359146
 * ,, , , and . 2019. “All Talk: How Increasing Interpersonal Communication on Wikis May Not Enhance Productivity.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 3, CSCW, Article 101 (November 2019), 19 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3359203.
 * , Tilman Bayer, and Olga Vasileva. “Dwelling on Wikipedia: Investigating Time Spent by Global Encyclopedia Readers.” In Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, 1–14. OpenSym ’19. Skövde, Sweden: Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3306446.3340829.
 * McDonald, Nora,, Rachel Greenstadt, and Andrea Forte. 2019. “Privacy, Anonymity, and Perceived Risk in Open Collaboration: A Study of Service Providers.” In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19), 671:1-671:12. New York, NY: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300901.

2018

 * , and . 2018. “How ‘Wide Walls’ Can Increase Engagement: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Scratch.” In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18), 361:1–361:11. New York, New York: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173935.
 * , and Noshir Contractor. 2018. “The Behavior and Network Position of Peer Production Founders.” In Transforming Digital Worlds, edited by Gobinda Chowdhury, Julie McLeod, Val Gillet, and Peter Willett, 99–106. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78105-1_12.
 * ,, and . 2018. “A Computational Analysis of Social Media Scholarship.” In The Sage Handbook of Social Media, edited by Jean Burgess, Alice Marwick, and Thomas Poell, 111-134. Thousand Oaks, CA, USA: Sage. [Website with link to chapter and replication materials]
 * ,, and . 2018. “Gender, Feedback, and Learners’ Decisions to Share Their Creative Computing Projects.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2 (CSCW): 54:1-54:23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3274323.
 * ,, and . 2018. “Managing Organizational Culture in Online Group Mergers.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2 (CSCW): 89:1-89–21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3274358.
 * , and Eszter Hargittai. 2018. “The Pipeline of Online Participation Inequalities: The Case of Wikipedia Editing.” Journal of Communication 68 (1): 143–68. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqx003. mailto:aaronshaw@northwestern.edu email Aaron for a copy
 * ,, and . 2018. “Revisiting ‘The Rise and Decline’ in a Population of Peer Production Projects.” In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18), 355:1–355:7. New York, NY: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173929.
 * [Poster] . 2018 "Clustering Wikisurvey Data using a Thurstonian Mixture Model." 4th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IS2S2 '18). Chicago, IL mailto:nathante@uw.edu email Nate for a copy.

2017

 * , and . 2017. “Scratch Community Blocks: Supporting Children as Data Scientists.” In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’17). New York, NY: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025847.
 * , and . 2017. “Learning to Code in Localized Programming Languages.” In Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale (L@S ’17), 33–39. New York, NY: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3051457.3051464.
 * [Poster], and . 2017. “Measuring Learning of Code Patterns in Informal Learning Environments.” In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’17), 706–706. SIGCSE ’17. New York, New York: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3017680.3022437. [Poster PDF]
 * , Darren Gergle, and . 2017. “Starting Online Communities: Motivations and Goals of Wiki Founders.” In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’17), 6376–6380. New York, NY: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025639.
 * Hautea, Samantha,, and . 2017. “Youth Perspectives on Critical Data Literacies.” In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’17), 919–30. New York, New York: ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025823.
 * , and Andrés Monroy-Hernández. 2017. “A Longitudinal Dataset of Five Years of Public Activity in the Scratch Online Community.” Scientific Data 4 (January): 170002. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.2.
 * , Dharma Dailey, Richard T. Guy, Ben Lewis, Mika Matsuzaki, and Jonathan T. Morgan. 2017. “Democratizing Data Science: The Community Data Science Workshops and Classes.” In Big Data Factories: Collaborative Approaches, 115–35. Computational Social Sciences. Berlin, Germany: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59186-5_9. [Preprint PDF]
 * Kim, Yongsung,, Haoqi Zhang, and Elizabeth Gerber. 2017. “Understanding Trust amid Delays in Crowdfunding.” In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 1982–1996. CSCW ’17. New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998207.
 * Klein, Maximilian, Jinhao Zhao, Jiajun Ni, Isaac Johnson,, and Haiyi Zhu. 2017. “Quality Standards, Service Orientation, and Power in Airbnb and Couchsurfing.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 1 (CSCW): 58:1–58:21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3134693. [Preprint PDF]
 * Lee, Seungyoon,, Zachary Wittrock, Siyu Xu, Li Niu, and Doran C. French. 2017. “Adolescents’ Perception of Peer Groups: Psychological, Behavioral, and Relational Determinants.” Social Science Research 65 (July): 181–94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.12.005.
 * , Jake Orlowitz, Jonathan Morgan,, and . 2017. “The Wikipedia Adventure: Field Evaluation of an Interactive Tutorial for New Users.” In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 1785–1799. CSCW ’17. New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998307.
 * [Poster], , and . 2017. “Density Dependence without Resource Partitioning: Population Ecology on Change.Org.” In Companion of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 323–326. CSCW ’17 Companion. New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3022198.3026358.
 * Twyman, Marlon, Brian C. Keegan, and . 2017. “Black Lives Matter in Wikipedia: Collective Memory and Collaboration around Online Social Movements.” In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 1400–1412. CSCW ’17. New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2998181.2998232.

2016

 * Burgess, Eleanor R., and . 2016. “Evaluating Open Collaboration Opportunities in the Fire Service with FireCrowd.” In Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, 22:1–22:4. OpenSym ’16. New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2957792.2957794.
 * , William Hale, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, and . 2016. “Remixing as a Pathway to Computational Thinking.” In Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW ’16), 1438–49. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2818048.2819984.
 * , Andrés Monroy-Hernández, and . 2016. “Surviving an ‘Eternal September’ How an Online Community Managed a Surge of Newcomers.” In . San Jose, CA, USA. https://mako.cc/academic/kiene_monroy_hill-surving_eternal_september-CHI2016.pdf.
 * Kim, Yongsung, Emily Harburg, Shana Azria,, Elizabeth Gerber, Darren Gergle, and Haoqi Zhang. 2016. “Studying the Effects of Task Notification Policies on Participation and Outcomes in On-the-Go Crowdsourcing.” In Fourth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing. https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/HCOMP/HCOMP16/paper/view/14029.
 * Matias, J. Nathan,, and . 2016. “Skill Progression in Scratch Revisited.” In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1486–1490. CHI ’16. New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858349.

2015

 * Benkler, Yochai,, and . 2015. “Peer Production: A Form of Collective Intelligence.” In Handbook of Collective Intelligence, edited by Thomas W. Malone and Michael S. Bernstein, 175–204. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [Preprint/Draft PDF]
 * Hargittai, Eszter, and . 2015. “Mind the Skills Gap: The Role of Internet Know-How and Gender in Differentiated Contributions to Wikipedia.” Information, Communication & Society 18 (4): 424–42. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2014.957711.
 * , and . 2015. “Page Protection: Another Missing Dimension of Wikipedia Research.” In Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, 15:1–15:4. OpenSym ’15. New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2788993.2789846.
 * Huang, Shih-Wen, Minhyang (Mia) Suh,, and Gary Hsieh. 2015. “How Activists Are Both Born and Made: An Analysis of Users on Change.Org.” In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 211–220. CHI ’15. New York, NY: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702559.
 * Matei, Sorin Adam, and . 2015. Transparency, Control, and Content Generation on Wikipedia: Editorial Strategies and Technical Affordances. In: Matei S., Russell M., Bertino E. (eds) Transparency in Social Media. Computational Social Sciences. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18552-1_13
 * . 2015. “Hired Hands and Dubious Guesses: Adventures in Crowdsourced Data Collection.” In Digital Research Confidential: The Secrets of Studying Behavior Online, edited by Eszter Hargittai and Christian Sandvig. The MIT Press. [Preprint PDF]

2014

 * , and . 2014. “Consider the Redirect: A Missing Dimension of Wikipedia Research.” In Proceedings of The International Symposium on Open Collaboration, 28:1–28:4. OpenSym ’14. New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2641580.2641616.
 * , and . 2014. “Laboratories of Oligarchy? How the Iron Law Extends to Peer Production.” Journal of Communication 64 (2): 215–38. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12082.
 * , Haoqi Zhang, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Sean Munson,, Elizabeth Gerber, Peter Kinnaird, and Patrick Minder. 2014. “Computer Supported Collective Action.” ‘’Interactions'' 21 (2): 74–77. https://doi.org/10.1145/2576875.
 * Zhang, Haoqi, Andrés Monroy-Hernández,, Sean A. Munson, Elizabeth Gerber, , Peter Kinnaird, Shelly D. Farnham, and Patrick Minder. 2014. “WeDo: End-to-End Computer Supported Collective Action.” In Eighth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM14/paper/view/8041.

2013

 * , and Andres Monroy-Hernandez. 2013. “The Cost of Collaboration for Code and Art: Evidence from a Remixing Community.” In Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 1035–1046. CSCW ’13. New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2441776.2441893.
 * , and Andres Monroy-Hernandez. 2013. “The Remixing Dilemma the Trade-off between Generativity and Originality.” American Behavioral Scientist 57 (5): 643–63. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764212469359.
 * Hargittai, Eszter, and . 2013. “Digitally Savvy Citizenship: The Role of Internet Skills and Engagement in Young Adults’ Political Participation around the 2008 Presidential Election.” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 57 (2): 115–34. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2013.787079.
 * , and . 2013. “The Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited: Characterizing Survey Response Bias with Propensity Score Estimation.” PLoS ONE 8 (6): e65782. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065782.
 * Kittur, Aniket, Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Michael Bernstein, Elizabeth Gerber,, John Zimmerman, Matt Lease, and John Horton. 2013. “The Future of Crowd Work.” In Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 1301–1318. CSCW ’13. New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2441776.2441923.

2012

 * Antin, Judd, and . 2012. “Social Desirability Bias and Self-Reports of Motivation: A Study of Amazon Mechanical Turk in the US and India.” In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2925–2934. CHI ’12. New York, NY, USA: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2208699.
 * . 2012. “Centralized and Decentralized Gatekeeping in an Open Online Collective.” Politics & Society 40 (3): 349–88. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032329212449009.
 * , and Yochai Benkler. 2012. “A Tale of Two Blogospheres: Discursive Practices on the Left and Right.” American Behavioral Scientist 56 (4): 459–87. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764211433793.

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