Journal Review

To support our background research, I  did a journal research on the relationship between a commenting system and the taste of audiences, and wrote the review below.

One problem with sharing information on a web community is that if we do not know the preference and taste of peers, it may not be useful to read their opinion about something. Thus, if the users of a community have very different preference or taste, the quality of information shared in the community is questionable and maybe the community does not worth to be formed. However, our website is only for a small group of people who love to DIY and the content will be narrowed down to a specific kind of DIY, so I believe the user of our community would share identical or similar preference and taste. Moreover, our registered members would not be anonymous, and our aim is to let them conduct a lot of information exchange or communication to allow them knowing peers better. By doing the above, members of our website may establish a shared view of value, which would help them to build valuable database like top charts (Demange 2010)

Demange, G 2010, ‘Sharing information in Web communities’, Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 580-601.