Testing Coleman’S Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipedia
Authors | Mikolaj Jan Piskorski Andreea Daniela Gorbatai |
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Publication date | 2017 |
DOI | 10.2139/ssrn.1926284 |
Links | Original |
Testing Coleman’S Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipedia - scientific work related to Wikipedia quality published in 2017, written by Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Andreea Daniela Gorbatai.
Overview
Since Durkheim, sociologists have believed that actors in dense network structures experience fewer norm violations. Coleman proposed one explanatory mechanism, arguing that dense networks provide an opportunity structure to reward those who punish norm violators, leading to more frequent punishment and in turn fewer norm violations. Despite ubiquitous scholarly references to Coleman’s theory, little empirical work has directly tested it in large-scale natural settings with longitudinal data. The authors undertake such a test using records of norm violations during the editing process on Wikipedia, the largest user-generated online encyclopedia. These data allow them to track all three elements required to test Coleman’s mechanism: norm violations, punishments for such violations, and rewards for those who punish violations. The results support Coleman’s mechanism.
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Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Gorbatai, Andreea Daniela. (2017). "[[Testing Coleman’S Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipedia]]". University of Chicago PressChicago, IL. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1926284.
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Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Gorbatai, Andreea Daniela. (2017). "<a href="https://wikipediaquality.com/wiki/Testing_Coleman’S_Social-Norm_Enforcement_Mechanism:_Evidence_from_Wikipedia">Testing Coleman’S Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipedia</a>". University of Chicago PressChicago, IL. DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1926284.
