TY - JOUR
T1 - Joining together online
T2 - The trajectory of CSCW scholarship on group formation
AU - Harris, Alexa M.
AU - Gómez-Zará, Diego
AU - Dechurch, Leslie A.
AU - Contractor, Noshir S.
N1 - Funding Information:
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grants IIS-1514427 and SES-1738297, the U. S. Army Research Laboratory under grant W911NF-09-2-0053, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under grant NNX15AM32G, and the National Institutes of Health under award number R01GM112938-01. We thank the anonymous reviewers for their highly constructive feedback and suggestions.
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PY - 2019/11
Y1 - 2019/11
N2 - The field of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) has an enduring interest in studying and designing technologies that bring people together in partnerships, teams, crowds, communities, and other collectives. As the technologies enabling group formation have evolved, so too have the guiding questions pursued by CSCW scholars. This review outlines the trajectory of scholarship on group formation with an eye towards the most pressing future questions in this area. To understand how CSCW researchers have studied technology-enabled group formation, we systematically review articles published at CSCW from 1992 to 2018. Exploring more than 2,000 potentially relevant works, we identified 35 focused on technologies and group formation. Content coding and thematic analysis revealed four periods and six themes in the study of online group formation. These themes include: group composition, self-presentation, assembly mechanisms, recruitment, organizing structures, and group culture. Quo vadis? Based on our review, we offer recommendations for the next generation of CSCW scholarship seeking to understand and enable collectives joining together online.
AB - The field of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) has an enduring interest in studying and designing technologies that bring people together in partnerships, teams, crowds, communities, and other collectives. As the technologies enabling group formation have evolved, so too have the guiding questions pursued by CSCW scholars. This review outlines the trajectory of scholarship on group formation with an eye towards the most pressing future questions in this area. To understand how CSCW researchers have studied technology-enabled group formation, we systematically review articles published at CSCW from 1992 to 2018. Exploring more than 2,000 potentially relevant works, we identified 35 focused on technologies and group formation. Content coding and thematic analysis revealed four periods and six themes in the study of online group formation. These themes include: group composition, self-presentation, assembly mechanisms, recruitment, organizing structures, and group culture. Quo vadis? Based on our review, we offer recommendations for the next generation of CSCW scholarship seeking to understand and enable collectives joining together online.
KW - CSCW models
KW - Communities
KW - Crowds
KW - Group assembly
KW - Group formation
KW - Groups
KW - Systematic literature review
KW - Teams
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U2 - 10.1145/3359250
DO - 10.1145/3359250
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85075053975
SN - 2573-0142
VL - 3
JO - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
JF - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
IS - CSCW
M1 - 148
ER -