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Contribution, commercialization & audience: understanding participation in an online creative community

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Proceedings of the ACM 2009 international conference on Supporting group work table of contents

Sanibel Island, Florida, USA

SESSION: Community table of contents

Pages 41-50

Year of Publication: 2009

ISBN:978-1-60558-500-0

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Eric Cook	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Stephanie D. Teasley	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Mark S. Ackerman	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

This paper presents a qualitative study of attitudes towards participation and contribution in an online creative community. The setting of the work is an online community of practice focused on the use and development of a user-customizable music software package called Reaktor. Findings from the study highlight four emergent topics in the discourse related to user contributions to the community: contribution assessment, support for learning, perceptions of audience and tensions about commercialization. Our analysis of these topics frames discussion about the value and challenges of attending to amateur and professional users in online creative communities.

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