Commitment in Online Knowledge-Production Communities
Nicolas Jullien, Karine Roudaut, Sandrine Le Squin · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2011
From a case study, GeoRezo, we discuss the commitment of those taking part to a community of practice and to plans, which aim to create knowledge or specific goods like software. This ?career? is analyzed from two points of view: the factors facilitating role taking; the motivations for such an involvement.