Tag: crowdsourcing

22 November 2015

Authors: 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 ...
Read More Does crowdsourcing citizen initiatives affect attitudes towards democracy?

16 November 2015

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

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 ...
Read More Hiring two postdocs to study the online gig economy

3 November 2015

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

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 ...
Read More Can virtual workers strike? Book chapter on identity and collective action in microwork

20 August 2015

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

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 ...
Read More Do platforms connect clients directly to providers? The new network patterns of digital work

2 July 2015

Authors: Kathryn Eccles

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 ...
Read More Live tagging art works at the Ashmolean Museum’s LiveFriday event

21 January 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ...
Read More Informational Magnetism on Wikipedia: mapping edit focus

15 January 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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, ...
Read More Informational Magnetism on Wikipedia: geographic networks of edits

16 December 2014

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ...
Read More Digging deeper into the localness of participation in Sub-Saharan African Wikipedia content

12 December 2014

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ...
Read More Explaining locally-contributed content in Wikipedia about Sub-Saharan Africa