Turbulent Stability of Emergent Roles: The Dualistic Nature of Self-Organizing Knowledge Coproduction

摘要: Increasingly, new forms of organizing for knowledge production are built around self-organizing coproduction community models with ambiguous role definitions. Current theories struggle to explain how high-quality is developed in these settings and participants self-organize the absence definitions, traditional organizational controls, or formal coordination mechanisms. In this article, we engage puzzle by investigating temporal dynamics underlying emergent roles on individual levels. Comprised a multilevel large-scale empirical study Wikipedia stretching over decade, our investigates terms prototypical activity patterns that organically emerge from individuals’ actions. Employing stratified sample 1,000 articles, tracked 200,000 distinct 700,000 activities, recorded each activity’s type. We found participants’ role-taking behavior turbulent...