Incentive-Centered Design for User-Contributed Content
dc.contributor.author | Jian, Lian | |
dc.contributor.author | MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey K. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-10-10T22:44:37Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-10-10T22:44:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
dc.identifier.citation | M. Peitz and J. Waldfogel, eds., The Oxford Handbook of The Digital Economy (Oxford University Press): 399-433 <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/100229> | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/100229 | |
dc.description.abstract | We review incentive-centered design for user-contributed content (UCC) on the Internet. UCC systems, produced (in part) through voluntary contributions made by non-employees, face fundamental incentives problems. In particular, to succeed, users need to be motivated to contribute in the first place ("getting stuff in"). Further, given heterogeneity in content quality and variety, the degree of success will depend on incentives to contribute a desirable mix of quality and variety ("getting \emph{good} stuff in"). Third, because UCC systems generally function as open-access publishing platforms, there is a need to prevent or reduce the amount of negative value (polluting or manipulating) content. The work to date on incentives problems facing UCC is limited and uneven in coverage. Much of the empirical research concerns specific settings and does not provide readily generalizable results. And, although there are well-developed theoretical literatures on, for example, the private provision of public goods (the "getting stuff in" problem), this literature is only applicable to UCC in a limited way because it focuses on contributions of (homogeneous) money, and thus does not address the many problems associated with heterogeneous information content contributions (the "getting \emph{good} stuff in" problem). We believe that our review of the literature has identified more open questions for research than it has pointed to known results. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press | en_US |
dc.subject | User Contributed Content, Online Behavior, Public Goods, Mechanism Design | en_US |
dc.title | Incentive-Centered Design for User-Contributed Content | en_US |
dc.type | Book Chapter | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Information and Library Science | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | School of Information | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Economics | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Annenberg School, University of Southern California | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/100229/1/icd4ucc.pdf | |
dc.identifier.source | The Oxford Handbook of The Digital Economy | en_US |
dc.description.mapping | 70 | en_US |
dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-5753-3778 | en_US |
dc.identifier.name-orcid | MacKie-Mason, Jeffrey; 0000-0002-5753-3778 | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Information, School of (SI) |
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