Journal article
Family matters: control and conflict in online family history production
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing, pp.475-486
15 Feb 2014
Abstract
Findagrave.com and Ancestry.com are sites that support the cooperative creation of public historical resources. These sites of cooperative production have attracted tens of thousands and millions of contributors respectively, yet they embrace content standards, social norms, and models of editorial control that differ radically from the well-studied exemplar of Wikipedia. In this study, we investigated how Ancestry.com and Findagrave.com support production of historical resources through analysis of message boards and interviews with participants. We found that these sites are not only places for building a historical resource, but simultaneously serve as opportunities for public memorialization and familial identity construction. Notably, we found that contributors to these websites embrace the idea of familial oversight of biographical information in order to maintain high standards of quality, and they harbor a corresponding skepticism of the open editing practices that have become a hallmark of many open collaboration projects.
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- Title
- Family matters
- Creators
- Heather L. Willever-Farr - Drexel University, Information Science (Informatics)Andrea Forte - Drexel University, Information Science (Informatics)
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing, pp.475-486
- Conference
- CSCW'14: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 15 Feb 2014–19 Feb 2014)
- Series
- ACM Conferences
- Publisher
- ACM
- Number of pages
- 12
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science (Informatics)
- Identifiers
- 991022017799004721