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Lunch Seminar: Tiago Oliveira Cunha

January 24, 2020 @ 12:00 - 13:00

The first and newest postdoc of NERDS, Tiago Oliveira Cunha, will introduce and discuss his work in a lunch seminar on Friday, Jan 24th, 12:15-13:00 in the 4E wing.

Are All Successful Communities Alike? Characterizing and Predicting the Success of Online Communities

The proliferation of online communities has created exciting opportunities to study the mechanisms that explain group success. While a growing body of research investigates community success through a single measure — typically, the number of members — we argue that there are multiple ways of measuring success. Here, we present a systematic study to understand the relations between these success definitions and test how well they can be predicted based on community properties and behaviors from the earliest period of a community’s lifetime. Surprisingly, we find that the measures do not exhibit very high correlations, suggesting that they capture different types of success. Additionally, we find that different success measures are predicted by different attributes of online communities, suggesting that success can be achieved through different behaviors. Our work sheds light on the basic understanding of what success represents in online communities and what predicts it. This work was accepted as a full paper at The Web Conference 2019.

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January 24, 2020
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12:00 - 13:00
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4E Wing