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Determining users' motivations to participate in online community archives: A preliminary study of documenting ferguson
Author(s) -
Freeland Chris,
Atiso Kodjo
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
proceedings of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2373-9231
DOI - 10.1002/pra2.2015.1450520100106
Subject(s) - reciprocity (cultural anthropology) , sociology , online community , order (exchange) , digital media , altruism (biology) , media studies , library science , public relations , political science , psychology , law , social science , social psychology , computer science , finance , economics
The shooting death of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, spurred an immediate national and international response in the fall of 2014. Washington University Libraries in St. Louis, Missouri, established the Documenting Ferguson web archive to gather digital media documenting local protests and demonstrations as captured by community members in order to archive the materials for future research and scholarly use. This preliminary study identified the factors that motivated participants to contribute content to the Documenting Ferguson online community archive, uncovering themes of altruism, reciprocity, and personal development.