TY - GEN
T1 - Badges of friendship
T2 - 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2014
AU - Halavais, Alexander
AU - Kwon, Kyounghee
AU - Havener, Shannon
AU - Striker, Jason
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - Badges can provide a number of advantages to networked, self-directed learners, including making visible social networks of support and direction. If badges do allow for this, we would expect to see badge acquisition to be predicted by the presence of a particular badge among a learner's social connections. In examining the badges and "tags" used on the question-and-answer site Stack Overflow. We find that the more general badges are closely related to tenure on the site, while the numerous "tag" badges provide for more socially-determined differentiation.
AB - Badges can provide a number of advantages to networked, self-directed learners, including making visible social networks of support and direction. If badges do allow for this, we would expect to see badge acquisition to be predicted by the presence of a particular badge among a learner's social connections. In examining the badges and "tags" used on the question-and-answer site Stack Overflow. We find that the more general badges are closely related to tenure on the site, while the numerous "tag" badges provide for more socially-determined differentiation.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2014.206
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2014.206
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84902270328
SN - 9781479925049
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 1607
EP - 1615
BT - Proceedings of the 47th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2014
PB - IEEE Computer Society
Y2 - 6 January 2014 through 9 January 2014
ER -