Knowledge curation discussions and activity dynamics in a short lived social QA community

摘要

Studying the dynamics and lifecycles of online knowledge curation communities is essential to identify and assemble community type specific repertoires of strategies, rules, and actions of community design, governance, content creation and curation. This paper examines the lifecycle of a short lived social Q&A community on Stack Exchange by performing the content analysis of the logs of member discussions and content curation actions.