Journal
JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION
Volume 18, Issue 1, Pages 2-15Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2012.01592.x
Keywords
Web 2; 0; participatory websites; user-generated content; user ratings; communication
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Research on participatory websites has been minimally theoretical and lacks a comprehensive framework that identifies common elements and their functions across a variety of Web 2.0 platforms. This article suggests the definitions of 4 common message types in participatory websitesproprietor content, user-generated content, deliberate aggregate user representations, and incidental aggregate user representationsand offers research exemplars that illustrate how they may function in transforming online social interaction and influence. It introduces the 6 empirical studies in this Special Issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication in terms of the theories, functions, cues, and message types on which these articles focus.
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