This shows that price is still a strong predictor if a buyer is going to purchase from a vendor, irregardless of privacy concerns.
For the case of sex toys, with privacy information disclosed, more than 30% of participants bought from the lowest priced vendor, comparable to the most privacy-protecting (highest-priced) vendor. The conclusion of the study is that “people will tend to purchase from merchants that offer more privacy protection and even pay a premium to purchase from such merchants.” However, as seen from Figure 4 on page 15, there is also a substantial number of people who ignore the presence of privacy cues. The Effect of Online Privacy Information on Purchasing Behavior: An Experimental Study Also, an alert can be given to users who have a biased perspective (based on their reverts) before they commit any changes to the article. Since Wikipedia prefers a nuanced perspective in article writing, extra caution might be given to users who fall on extremes of the Revert Graph. For example, such a tool can be run on each article, giving everybody an overview on the possible bias that they might subconsciously take on the article. I think it is eye-opening to see how researchers think of quantifiable statistics as proxies for issues like maintenance work (like reverts) and conflicts (Controversial Revision Count).Īlso, I think their work on the Revert Graph opens up a lot of possibilities for improving Wikipedia moderation tools. This article was novel because it postulated a model for conflict detection and resolution. I also like the longitudinal study done for the “Music of Italy” article as it shows the activity of certain groups of users during the infancy of the article. This is new to me because I have always thought more people involved would always lead to better outcomes. However, as time passes and the article improves, more power needs to be relinquished to the masses because ostensibly, the latter does a better job in the maintenance of the article. However, from the graphs that follow, the main takeaways from the paper are that high editor concentration leads to greater improvements in article quality. I find the tables in the paper a challenge to make sense of. However, once you have the majority of people agreeing to your decision, it is easier to do so. In sum, making a decision such as kicking out a player is difficult to do so in a personal capacity. In addition, the administrators did not want to arbitrate in any more disputes. The implied notion was that concentrating power in the hands of a few people was not desirable. This is why the final choice was made to implement a voting scheme in-game to carry out tasks which require administrator rights. It took some minor updates to the methodology before it was completed.Ĭonsidering this in the context of LambdaMOO, it could be said that the the viewpoints of the majority can be considered the most amenable in any dispute or decision-making process.
The task then was to see if the internet hivemind could complete the game even with the chaos that ensued.
The program would process each player’s key in sequence. This reminds me of the game Twitch Plays Pokemon, where players could determine what the game character does by pressing key combinations. Once I read up on those, I realized that what this article in summary was the shift in decision making power in the game to the majority, as well as the creation of tools to police its users. I found the article confusing at first because I lacked the context of what MOOs or MUDs were. Information systems development is at the core of the academic discipline of information systems and the papers in this volume reflect on established topics in information systems development as well as emerging concepts, approaches and practices.Herein lies a text dump of the reflections I did for my Social Web class.
ISD2012 follows the conference series in exploring the relations between research, industry practice and education. This contribution includes the role of information systems in mitigation and adaptation strategies as well as addressing the direct contribution of information and communications technology to that degradation. The theme of the conference focused on the significant contribution that information systems can make to challenges posed by the degradation of the natural environment. This volume is the collected proceedings of the 21 st International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2012) held at the Monash University Centre in Prato, Italy.