Danmaku hosts mass participation as a continuous collective flow while the discussion board divides learners into threaded small groups¶
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q2 i? In a MOOC lecture, danmaku messages flowed continuously along video playback as an undivided collective space, whereas discussion-board participation was divided into 98 threads averaging about 7.54 posts each. → Bo Yang 2024
Evidence¶
Bo Yang 2024¶
Bo Yang. (2024). Combining Danmaku and Discussion Boards: Toward A Scalable and Sociable Environment for Mass Collaboration in MOOCs. Intern. J. Comput.-Support. Collab. Learn. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-024-09426-3
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Qualitative analysis of mass-participation patterns (RQ1) across all 2435 danmaku and 739 posts from an informal Grade-10 math MOOC lecture. The analysis found danmaku displayed "in a continuous flow along with video playback," while the 269 discussion-board learners were "divided into small-group discussions" in 98 threads.
"There was a total of 98 threads on the discussion board, and on average, about 2.74 learners sent about 7.54 posts in each thread. As a result, these 269 learners’ participation was divided into small-group discussions accommodated in each thread on the discussion board."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Interaction in danmaku and discussion boards spanned A3C levels from attendance through cooperation, with collaboration rare and limited to knowledge discussions — related
- All discussion-board contributors sent significantly more text per person than all danmaku contributors in every shared category — related
- Danmaku questions elicit rapid co-answering and co-confusion, while discussion-board questions often go unanswered or support multi-round elaboration — related
- Mass participation formats in online communities depend on the tools used (Danmaku versus discussion board) — a broader claim this one bears on
- Danmaku interaction is predominantly socio-emotional while discussion-board interaction tilts cognitive, and the tools share only four content categories — related
- Danmaku learners engage in parasocial greetings and compliments to the instructor and seek co-learning presence, phenomena absent on the discussion board — related
- Discussion thread length is strongly linearly related to the number of players contributing, indicating collective rather than small-group collaboration — related
- Longer Facebook threads with more interlocutors show distinct structural characteristics compared to the broader corpus — related
- Danmaku primarily carries tacit knowledge sharing via personal experience while the discussion board carries explicit mathematical knowledge — related
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Danmaku hosts mass participation as a continuous collective flow while the discussion board divides learners into threaded small groups |
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Danmaku hosts mass participation as a continuous collective flow while the discussion board divides learners into threaded small groups |
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2024 |
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2026-10-20 |
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