Online Competition and Collaboration

How do online environment encourage people to work together to collaborate in new ways? How do they create and encourage competition? Can the two coexist?

Readings on Cooperation and Competition

• Smith Jonas Heide. 2006. "The Games Economists Play - Implications of Economic Game Theory for the Study of Computer Games." Game Studies, Volume 6, issue 6
• Smith Jonas Heide. 2007. "Tragedies of the ludic commons - understanding cooperation in multiplayer games." Game Studies, Volume 7, issue 7
• Wilkinson, D and Huberman, B. 2007. "Assessing the Value of Cooperation in Wikipedia." First Monday, volume 12, number 4 (April 2007)
• Viégas, F. B., Wattenberg, M., and Dave, K. 2004. Studying cooperation and conflict between authors with history flow visualizations. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Vienna, Austria, April 24 - 29, 2004). CHI '04. ACM, New York, NY, 575-582. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/985692.985765

The history flow tool described in the last paper can be found here: http://www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/history_flow/