Impact of Self-Disclosure on Newcomers in Online Communities

Lu, Di; Farzan, Rosta

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Title

Impact of Self-Disclosure on Newcomers in Online Communities

Author(s)

• Lu, Di
• Farzan, Rosta

Issue Date

2015-03-15

Keyword(s)

• human information behavior
• online communities

Abstract

User-generated online communities such as online discussion boards have become an importance element of life in information society. However, their success is accompanied with challenges. Particularly, their high reliance on user-generate content makes ensuring a continuous flow of newcomers vital to their existence. Newcomers face various difficulties due to their lack of commitment and familiarity with the community and many online communities experience high quitting rate of newcomers. In the current work, we aim to study how self-disclosure can be used as a mechanism to encourage more effort and commitment from newcomers. We present our results from exploring the relationship between self-disclosure and newcomers’ effort and commitment in an online community. Our results show that self-disclosure has significant positive associations with newcomers’ subsequent effort in the community.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2015 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

English

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