ELECTRN 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Field Experiment, Dual Process Theory
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Evaluation of competing candidate solutions in electronic networks of practice (meservy 2014) The studies examine how individuals filter knowledge found in online forums. The article concludes that peripheral cues (source expertise and validation) have more influence on knowledge filtering decisions than does cues about content quality. A collection of loosely connected and geographically distributed individual that engage in similar activities and communicate via computer-mediated channels. Exchange knowledge used of specialised, public internet forums where they can share their knowledge and find solutions to their issues. Most common enp are: online discussion forums, internet-based virtual bulletin board. There is no control over quality of the knowledge, enp have participants that contribute to the control of it, those participants can be: active members, lurkers or saboteurs. Anonymity complicates the knowledge contributors to the enp, users have to evaluate and filter information in order use it for their final purpose.
