@inproceedings{0af212c4844245bca487d3a173fa08ff,
title = "Habit as an explanation of participation in an online peer-production community",
abstract = "User activities in peer-production communities have mainly been examined under the assumption that individuals are rational individuals who are always cognizant of what they are doing and why. We argue that not all use is the same; while some behaviors are governed by conscious motivations, others may be a habitual response that is developed out of routine. We take a more granular approach to explaining what people are doing in online communities and how motivations and habits explain their use of specific features. In the context of the peer-production community Everything2 we employ both server log data and self-report, finding that habit is a non-conscious-driven behavior that is more associated with less cognitively-demanding tasks than content production.",
keywords = "Computer supported collaborative work, Habit, Motivations, Online community",
author = "Wohn, {Donghee Yvette} and Alcides Velasquez and Tor Bjornrud and Cliff Lampe",
year = "2012",
doi = "10.1145/2207676.2208697",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781450310154",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
pages = "2905--2914",
booktitle = "Conference Proceedings - The 30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2012",
note = "30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2012 ; Conference date: 05-05-2012 Through 10-05-2012",
}