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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Digital Rhetoric in Collaborative Knowledge-Making
Reading Answers and Super-Answers to Existential Questions on Quora
Authors : Cosima Rughiniş, Răzvan Rughiniş, Ştefania Matei, Alina Petra Marinescu Nenciu
Published in: HCI International 2014 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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We examine the ways in which answers formulated in the Q&A community Quora are aggregated in a collaborative, computer-mediated body of knowledge. Readers’ experiences are shaped by the answer ranking algorithm, a central rhetorical device on Quora. Answer visibility on page is strongly dependent on the number of upvotes, but also on recency and author popularity. Upvotes depend to some extent on wordcount, followers, and use of visual representations, but not on answer’s age. This indicates that readers engage with Quora as a body of stratified information, rather than pursuing unlimited diversity of perspectives: engagement seems to be limited to the top answers, which represent, for practical purposes, Quora’s persuasive statements.