User:Aleksi aaltonen

I am an Associate Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, where I study data-based innovation and organizing.

In 2012, I founded an activity tracking app Moves with five other cofounders including Sampo Karjalainen. Apple chose Moves as the Best App of 2013 in the Fitness Revolution category, and the company was acquired by Facebook in April 2014.

My research has been published in top academic journals such as Management Science,  Information Systems Research,  MIS Quarterly, and  Journal of Management Information Systems. I hold a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

I write about the production of academic knowledge in my Medium blog and about data in the Data Studies Bibliography blog.

For more details, visit my website aleksi.info, Twitter feed, or LinkedIn profile.

Wikipedia research activity
I collaborate with different scholars to understand the evolution of governance in Wikipedia using datasets made available by Wikimedia Foundation.


 * Aaltonen, A. 2016. Wikipedia at 15: In Decline But Condition Isn’t Terminal – So What May the Future Hold? The Conversation, 15 January 2016.
 * Aaltonen, A. and Seiler, S. 2015. Cumulative Growth in User-Generated Content Production: Evidence from Wikipedia. Management Science.
 * Summary and my interview Wikipedia and the Momentum of Tiny Edits in the Atlantic
 * Aaltonen, A. and Lanzara, G. F. 2015. Building Governance Capability in Online Social Production: Insights from Wikipedia. Organization Studies, 36(12): 1649–1673
 * Summary in Wikimedia Research Newsletter, June 2015
 * Aaltonen, A. and Seiler, S., 2014. Wikipedia: The Value of Open Content Production. CentrePiece, 19(2):11–13.
 * Aaltonen, A. and Kallinikos, J., 2013. Coordination and Learning in Wikipedia: Revisiting the Dynamics of Exploitation and Exploration. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 37: 161–192.

Wikipedia contributions
I have mostly contributed to the following pages in Wikipedia:


 * Jannis Kallinikos (my PhD supervisor)