How Do We Manage the Crowd?
A recent paper from a team of Information Sciences (IS) researchers that includes C. T. Bauer College of Business Professor and Bauer Senior Fellow Yili (Kevin) Hong, begins to answer a timely question for platform operators, “How do we manage the crowd?” The research, “How Do Peer Awards Motivate Creative Content? Experimental Evidence from Reddit,” (Gordon Burtch, Qinglai He, Hong, Dokyun Lee), forthcoming in the Top Tier academic journal Management Science, identifies a method for shaping UGC creative content online.
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