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Steven L. Johnson
Researcher at Temple University
Publications - 15
Citations - 832
Steven L. Johnson is an academic researcher from Temple University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Online community & Social media. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 14 publications receiving 717 citations. Previous affiliations of Steven L. Johnson include University of Virginia.
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Network Exchange Patterns in Online Communities
Samer Faraj,Steven L. Johnson +1 more
TL;DR: It is found that network exchange patterns in online community communication networks are characterized by direct reciprocity and indirect reciprocity patterns and, surprisingly, a tendency away from preferential attachment.
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The Emergence of Online Community Leadership
TL;DR: A novel use of textual analysis is contributed to develop a model of language use to evaluate the utterances of all participants in the community and provides a model to study online language use.
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Emergence of power laws in online communities: the role of social mechanisms and preferential attachment
TL;DR: A blended model of preferential attachment with other social network formation mechanisms was most consistent with power law distributions seen in online communities, suggesting the need to move away from stylized explanations of network emergence that rely on single theories toward more highly socialized and multitheoretic explanations of community development.
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Open media or echo chamber: the use of links in audience discussions on the Facebook Pages of partisan news organizations
TL;DR: The authors evaluated the use of hyperlinks in audience discussions on the Facebook Pages of two partisan cable news organizations: the liberal-leaning Rachel Maddow Show and the conservative O'Reilly Factor, to investigate to what extent linking might intensify partisan political discussion or infuse a variety of perspectives into online communication.
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A Configural Approach to Coordinating Expertise in Software Development Teams
TL;DR: You Can’t Bribe a Computer: Dealing with the Societal Challenge for Corruption Through Information and Communication Technologies is published.