Tag: crowdsourcing
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Does crowdsourcing citizen initiatives affect attitudes towards democracy?
22 November 2015
Author:Henrik Serup Christensen
Crowdsourcing legislation is an example of a democratic innovation that gives citizens a say in the legislative process. In their Policy and Internet journal article ‘Does Crowdsourcing Legislation Increase Political ...
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Hiring two postdocs to study the online gig economy
16 November 2015
Author:This face will become familiar to the successful candidates. I’m looking for two great postdocs to join me for at least 3.5 years to study how ICTs are being ...
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Can virtual workers strike? Book chapter on identity and collective action in microwork
3 November 2015
Author:Tyldesley miners during the 1926 General Strike (Wikipedia) I’ve posted online a pre-print version of my upcoming chapter in Space, place and global digital work, edited by Jörg Flecker ...
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Do platforms connect clients directly to providers? The new network patterns of digital work
20 August 2015
Author:As part of our project on digital labour and development, Isis Hjorth, Mark Graham, Helena Barnard and I have been meeting and interviewing over a hundred people who do ...
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Live tagging art works at the Ashmolean Museum’s LiveFriday event
2 July 2015
Author:How does crowdsourcing work? Who gets involved and why? Can non-experts provide useful and high quality tags for important art works? These are some of the questions at the heart ...
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Informational Magnetism on Wikipedia: mapping edit focus
21 January 2015
Author:The previous post demonstrated not only that Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa are net-importers of content on Wikipedia (Sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, receives 10.7 more ...
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Informational Magnetism on Wikipedia: geographic networks of edits
15 January 2015
Author:The previous posts about the geography of contributions to Wikipedia showed the varying types of local engagement that different regions have, the primary reason that Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular, ...
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Digging deeper into the localness of participation in Sub-Saharan African Wikipedia content
16 December 2014
Author:The previous two posts about the geography of contributions to Wikipedia showed both the different types of local engagement that different regions have, and the primary reason that Sub-Saharan ...
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Explaining locally-contributed content in Wikipedia about Sub-Saharan Africa
12 December 2014
Author:An earlier post showed how different parts of the world have very different levels of engagement with local content in Wikipedia. The data presented there showed that a majority ...
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