Publications

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Accepted/Forthcoming Publications

Hargittai, Eszter, and Aaron Shaw , 2020 (forthcoming). "Comparing Internet Experiences and Prosociality in Amazon Mechanical Turk and Population-Based Survey Samples." Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World.
Hill, Benjamin Mako , and Aaron Shaw , 2020 (forthcoming). "The hidden costs of requiring accounts online: quasi-experimental evidence from peer production." Communication Research.
Chau Tran, Kaylea Champion , Andrea Forte, Benjamin Mako Hill , Rachel Greenstadt. 2020 (forthcoming). "Are anonymity-seekers just like everybody else?An analysis of contributions to Wikipedia from Tor." IEEE Security & Privacy (Oakland).

Publications

2019

Champion, Kaylea , Nora McDonald, Stephanie Bankes, Joseph Zhang, Rachel Greenstadt, Andrea Forte, Benjamin Mako Hill . 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
Hill, Benjamin Mako , and Aaron Shaw . 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”, Kiene, Charles , 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.
Kiene, Charles , Jialun “Aaron” Jiang, and Benjamin Mako Hill . 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
Narayan, Sneha , Nathan TeBlunthuis , Wm Salt Hale , Benjamin Mako Hill , and Aaron Shaw . 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.
TeBlunthuis, Nathan , 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, Benjamin Mako Hill , 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

Dasgupta, Sayamindu , and Benjamin Mako Hill . 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.
Foote, Jeremy , 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.
Foote, Jeremy , Aaron Shaw , and Benjamin Mako Hill . 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]
Gan, Emilia F. , Benjamin Mako Hill , and Sayamindu Dasgupta . 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.
Kiene, Charles , Aaron Shaw , and Benjamin Mako Hill . 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.
Shaw, Aaron , 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. [email Aaron for a copy]
TeBlunthuis, Nathan , Aaron Shaw , and Benjamin Mako Hill . 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] TeBlunthuis, Nathan . 2018 "Clustering Wikisurvey Data using a Thurstonian Mixture Model." 4th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IS2S2 '18). Chicago, IL [email Nate for a copy].

2017

Dasgupta, Sayamindu , and Benjamin Mako Hill . 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.
Dasgupta, Sayamindu , and Benjamin Mako Hill . 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] Dasgupta, Sayamindu , and Benjamin Mako Hill . 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]
Foote, Jeremy , Darren Gergle, and Aaron Shaw . 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, Sayamindu Dasgupta , and Benjamin Mako Hill . 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.
Hill, Benjamin Mako , 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.
Hill, Benjamin Mako , 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, Aaron Shaw , 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, Benjamin Mako Hill , 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, Jeremy Foote , 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.
Narayan, Sneha , Jake Orlowitz, Jonathan Morgan, Benjamin Mako Hill , and Aaron Shaw . 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] TeBlunthuis, Nathan , Aaron Shaw , and Benjamin Mako Hill . 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 Aaron Shaw . 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 Aaron Shaw . 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.
Dasgupta, Sayamindu , William Hale, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, and Benjamin Mako Hill . 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.
Kiene, Charles , Andrés Monroy-Hernández, and Benjamin Mako Hill . 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, Aaron Shaw , 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, Sayamindu Dasgupta , and Benjamin Mako Hill . 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, Aaron Shaw , and Benjamin Mako Hill . 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 Aaron Shaw . 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.
Hill, Benjamin Mako , and Aaron Shaw . 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, Benjamin Mako Hill , 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 Jeremy Foote . 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
Shaw, Aaron . 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

Hill, Benjamin Mako , and Aaron Shaw . 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.
Shaw, Aaron , and Benjamin Mako Hill . 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.
Shaw, Aaron , Haoqi Zhang, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Sean Munson, Benjamin Mako Hill , 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, Aaron Shaw , Sean A. Munson, Elizabeth Gerber, Benjamin Mako Hill , 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

Hill, Benjamin Mako , 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.
Hill, Benjamin Mako , 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 Aaron Shaw . 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.
Hill, Benjamin Mako , and Aaron Shaw . 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, Aaron Shaw , 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 Aaron Shaw . 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.
Shaw, Aaron . 2012. “Centralized and Decentralized Gatekeeping in an Open Online Collective.” Politics & Society 40 (3): 349–88. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032329212449009.
Shaw, Aaron , 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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