KNOWLEDGE CONTRIBUTION IN ONLINE QUESTION AND ANSWERING COMMUNITIES : EFFECTS OF GROUPS MEMBERSHIP

Online question and answering community is a popular type of online community for people to seek and share knowledge. After years of development, a recent trend of these communities is to leverage group wisdom by implementing group feature, which allows users to form self-organizing groups and contribute knowledge to the community as group members. This new pattern of user organization poses challenge to extant knowledge sharing literature which...