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Coye Cheshire & Andrew Fiore April 18, 2023//
Computer-Mediated Communication
Collective Action and Public Goods II
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Solutions to the Free-Rider Problem?
Selective Incentives
Self-Interest
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Types of Social DilemmasDifferent social dilemma gamesmake different use of the payouts:
T>R>P>S Prisoner’s Dilemma
T>R>S>P Chicken
T>P>R>S Deadlock
R>T>P>S Stag HuntCoop. Defect
Coop.
Defect
A
B
3 (R)
5 (T)
0 (S)3 (R)
0 (S)
5 (T)
1 (P)1 (P)
Reward
Temptation
Sucker
Punishment
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Example: Chicken GameT>R>S>P Chicken
Coop = Swerve
Defect = Do Not Swerve
Coop. Defect
Coop.
Defect
A
B
3 (R)
5 (T)
1 (S)3 (R)
1 (S)
5 (T)
0 (P)0 (P)
Reward
Temptation
Sucker
Punishment
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Life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short” (Hobbes 1651)
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Reconsidering the Free-Rider Problem
Communality and Discretionary Databases
“Second-Order” Communality
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Problem shift–
Making private data public
Maintaining information privacy
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Collective Action and Group Size
Smaller groups tend to have a better chance of producing a public good (Olson 1965)
Why?
More benefits for each personLarger impact of any single contributionGenerally, lower costs of organization
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But what about REALLY big groups?
Analyzing and Visualizing the Semantic Coverage of Wikipedia and Its Authors (Holloway, Bozicevic and Borner 2005)
http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0512085
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Self-Interest in Small versus Large Groups
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Fallacy of Individuals and Collectives
See: Mancur Olson (1965) “The Logic of Collective Action”
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Online Collectives are Good!
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Finding “Roles” in Online Collective Action Behaviors
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Str
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