Peer-recognition and Performance in Online Crowdsourcing Communities
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Dissanayake, Indika; Zhang, Jie; Yuan, Feirong; Wang, Jingguo
- Source
- 2015 48th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences System Sciences (HICSS), 2015 48th Hawaii International Conference on. :4262-4265 Jan, 2015
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Communities
Crowdsourcing
Education
Context
Mathematical model
Discussion forums
Data analysis
- Language
- ISSN
- 1530-1605
Recent advances in information technology bring significant changes to the nature of social interactions and information exchange. Physical face-to-face communications are slowly replaced by online virtual communities. Motivated by this phenomenon, this research investigates how voluntary community involvement and self-disclosure behavior impact a member's peer-recognition and task performance within a virtual crowd sourcing competition community. We collected secondary data from the discussion forums of a specialized crowd sourcing platform that focuses on data analytics projects. Our results reveal that a member's community involvement improves both the peer-recognition of the member in the community and his/her performance ranking. Our findings have strategic implications to participants of virtual crowd sourcing communities and other professional online communities.