Thanks. Yes, it's true, but the problem is the papers rarely discuss who these people are. So we don't have a sense of whether they're mostly female/male, younger/older, artsy/techie, etc., and whether it varies by type of content shared. I'm interested in this topic of content production and would like to outline who these people are as part of my literature review. On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Denise N. Rall <denrall@yahoo.com> wrote:
Yosem -
This is a bit of a long shot, but in 2007 Sandra Harrison was working on this topic -
Harrison, S., Ed. (2007). 'Transgressions, miscommunication and flames: problematic incidents in email discussions' in Mia Consalvo & Caroline Haythornthwaite, (Eds.) AoIR Internet Annual Volume 4, New York: Peter Lang, pp 105-117.
As I recall, her research pointed to a similar statistic, that 5% of the people produced 95% of the flaming. Her paper might have citations to similar percentages in other contexts.
Someone at AoIR presented on this topic regarding email contributors, I cannot recall when or where I heard them, hopefully they will come forward!
Cheers, Denise
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