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How-To pages: Informal systems of expertise sharing.
- Source :
- ECSCW 2007; 2007, p391-410, 20p
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- The How-To has recently emerged as a genre of online content that describes how something is done. This study focuses on computer and electronics hobbyists and their use of How-Tos-how hobbyists use existing knowledge to solve technical challenges, how they document their new knowledge for one another, and how they exchange help and feedback. Our analysis describes How-To knowledge sharing as a fully decentralized expertise-location system in which the How-To functions as both a broadcast of the author's expertise and a personal portfolio. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISBNs :
- 9781848000308
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- ECSCW 2007
- Publication Type :
- Book
- Accession number :
- 33149566
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-031-5_21