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The Effect of Emotional Cues from the NFL on Wikipedia Contributions

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Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 1, Issue CSCW

Article No.: 66, Pages 1 - 21

https://doi.org/10.1145/3134701

Published: 06 December 2017 Publication History

Abstract

Exploiting evidence that sporting results affect fans' mood, we analyze whether National Football League game outcomes can affect the contributions of Wikipedia editors who identify as fans of a specific team. We find that the day after a team loses, their fans decrease their contributions towards football-related pages (relative to after a win). Relative decreases are bigger if losses are unexpected, or if losing margins are big. In contrast, unexpected wins do not cause more contributions relative to wins that were not unexpected. Neither do big wins result in more contributions relative to small wins. Additionally, contributions to non-football-related pages are not affected by NFL game results. Our findings add to the literatures on (i) the determinants of individual contributions to peer production communities, (ii) how community dynamics affect user contributions, (iii) the importance of emotions, (iv) the effect of offline events on online behavior, and (v) the applicability of behavioral economics concepts to the HCI literature.

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Ren YZhang HKraut R(2023)How Did They Build the Free Encyclopedia? A Literature Review of Collaboration and Coordination among Wikipedia EditorsACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/361736931:1(1-48)Online publication date: 29-Nov-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3617369
Zhang JTan CLv Q(2019)Intergroup Contact in the WildProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/33592953:CSCW(1-35)Online publication date: 7-Nov-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3359295
Zhang JTan CLv Q(2018)"This is why we play"Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/32744662:CSCW(1-25)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3274466

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