From the work of Zhao and Zhu, one of the readings this week touched on crowdsourcing research, where it was currently and future directions. Crowdsourcing in one of the emerging Web 2.0 based phenomena, which can facilitate the connectivity and collaboration of people, organizations, and societies. I liked the emphasis they included for Crowdsourcing seeking to mobilize competence and expertise, which are distributed among the crowd and have various forms. The process of crowdsourcing works in the following way: 1) An organization identifies tasks and releases them online to a crowd of outsiders who are interested in performing these tasks on the organization’s behalf, for a stipulated fee or any other incentives. 2) A large number of individuals then offer to undertake the tasks individually or in a collaborative way. I also liked the mention that some crowdsourcing projects provide a clear format for compensating valuable contributors; while in other cases, such as Wikipedia or Dell’s Ideastorm, contributors are not compensated.
Reference
1) Zhao, Y., & Zhu,
Q. (2014). Evaluation
on crowdsourcing research: Current status and future direction. Information Systems Frontiers, 16(3),
417-434.
One of the most creative uses of crowdsourcing that I’m familiar with is collecting studies about a topic. So, the researchers shared a link to a Google Sheet and asked others to share related studies about the topic. I think there were different columns to hold different sections of the study (e.g., title, year, etc.). I wish I could find a link to this application of crowdsourcing which is quite interesting, I believe. I’m not sure if they made attribution to those who contributed to that document.
ReplyDeleteI also remember this resource (https://ugc.futurelearn.com/other_assets/learning-guide/the-crowdsourced-guide-to-learning.pdf) which is also crowdsource resource and this includes information about the contributors. As we talk about intellectual property this week, it’s important to point out how the crowdsourced resource will be copyrighted.
Omer, I reviewed the Crowdsourced Guide to Learning and am curious how one goes about copywriting crowdsourcing?
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