Editing Internet Research Methods (Spring 2016) (section)

=== Week 5: Monday April 25: Experiments ===

'''Facilitator:''' Emma

'''Required Readings:'''

* Reips, U.-D. (2002). [http://doi.org/10.1026//1618-3169.49.4.243 Standards for Internet-based experimenting]. Experimental Psychology, 49(4), 243–256. [[http://iscience.deusto.es/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/ulf27.pdf Alternate Link]]
* Hergueux, J., & Jacquemet, N. (2014). [http://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-014-9400-5 Social preferences in the online laboratory: a randomized experiment]. Experimental Economics, 18(2), 251–283. ''[Available through UW Libraries]''
* Salganik, M. J., Dodds, P. S., & Watts, D. J. (2006). [http://doi.org/10.1126/science.1121066 Experimental Study of Inequality and Unpredictability in an Artificial Cultural Market]. Science, 311(5762), 854–856. ''[Available through UW Libraries]''
* Rijt, A. van de, Kang, S. M., Restivo, M., & Patil, A. (2014). [http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1316836111 Field experiments of success-breeds-success dynamics]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(19), 6934–6939. ''[Available through UW Libraries]'' [[http://www.akshaynpatil.com/papers/success.pdf Alternative Link]]
* Bond, R. M., Fariss, C. J., Jones, J. J., Kramer, A. D. I., Marlow, C., Settle, J. E., & Fowler, J. H. (2012). [http://doi.org/10.1038/nature11421 A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization]. Nature, 489(7415), 295–298. ''[Available through UW Libraries]''

'''Optional Readings:'''

* Zhu, H., Zhang, A., He, J., Kraut, R., & Kittur, A. (2013). [http://doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2481311 Effects of Peer Feedback on Contribution: A Field Experiment in Wikipedia]. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Paris, France: ACM. ''[Available through UW Libraries]''
* Restivo, M., & van de Rijt, A. (2012). [http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034358 Experimental Study of Informal Rewards in Peer Production]. PLoS ONE, 7(3), e34358. ''[Free Online]''
: This is really just a more in-depth version of the experiments in the Restivo and van de Rijt article described above.
* Restivo, M., & van de Rijt, A. (0). [http://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2014.888459 No praise without effort: experimental evidence on how rewards affect Wikipedia’s contributor community]. Information, Communication & Society, 0(0), 1–12. ''[Available through UW Libraries]''
: Note: This piece is, more or less, a continuation of the Restivo and van de Rijt piece included above but it is longer and goes into much more depth on at least one of the important theoretical issues.
* Kramer, A. D. I., Guillory, J. E., & Hancock, J. T. (2014). [http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1320040111 Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(24), 8788–8790. ''[Available through UW Libraries]''
: Note: We've already read but I'd like to discuss it again.
* Cosley, D., Frankowski, D., Terveen, L., & Riedl, J. (2007). [http://doi.org/10.1145/1216295.1216309 SuggestBot: Using Intelligent Task Routing to Help People Find Work in Wikipedia]. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (pp. 32–41). New York, NY, USA: ACM. ''[Available through UW Libraries]''
* Reinecke, K., & Gajos, K. Z. (2015). [http://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675246 LabintheWild: Conducting Large-Scale Online Experiments With Uncompensated Samples]. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (pp. 1364–1378). New York, NY, USA: ACM. ''[Available through UW Libraries]''