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Academic crowdsourcing in the humanities : crowds, communities and co-production /

Academic Crowdsourcing in the Humanities lays the foundations for a theoretical framework to understand the value of crowdsourcing, an avenue that is increasingly becoming important to academia as the web transforms collaboration and communication and blurs institutional and professional boundaries....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hedges, Mark (Mark Charles) (Author), Dunn, Stuart (Author)
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : Elsevier : Chandos Publishing, [2018]
Series:Chandos information professional series.
Subjects:
Human computation.
Humanities > Research.
Group work in research.
Communication in learning and scholarship > Technological innovations.
Traitement assisté par l'humain.
Recherche > Travail en équipe.
Communication savante > Innovations.
teams.
COMPUTERS > Computer Literacy.
COMPUTERS > Computer Science.
COMPUTERS > Data Processing.
COMPUTERS > Hardware > General.
COMPUTERS > Information Technology.
COMPUTERS > Machine Theory.
COMPUTERS > Reference.
Communication in learning and scholarship > Technological innovations
Group work in research
Human computation
Humanities > Research
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • ACADEMIC CROWDSOURCING IN THE HUMANITIES
  • Series Page
  • ACADEMIC CROWDSOURCING IN THE HUMANITIES: Crowds, Communities and Co-production
  • Copyright
  • CONTENTS
  • ABOUT THE AUTHORS
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • 1
  • Introduction: academic crowdsourcing from the periphery to the centre
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CROWDSOURCING, CITIZEN SCIENCE AND ENGAGEMENT
  • CROWD CONNECTIVITY: THE RISE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
  • METHODOLOGY
  • 2
  • From citizen science to community co-production
  • THE BUSINESS OF CROWDSOURCING
  • CROWDSOURCING IN THE ACADEMY
  • CROWDSOURCING AND SOCIAL ENGAGEMENTCOMMUNITIES OF CROWDSOURCING: SELF-ORGANIZATION AND CO-PRODUCTION
  • TERMINOLOGIES AND TYPOLOGIES FOR HUMANITIES CROWDSOURCING
  • 3
  • Processes and products: a typology of crowdsourcing
  • HUMANITIES CROWDSOURCING: A TYPOLOGY
  • PROCESS TYPES
  • Transcribing
  • Beyond transcription: correcting and modifying content
  • Crowdsourcing as knowledge organization
  • Crowdsourcing as creation and commentary
  • Spatial processes: mapping and georeferencing
  • Translating
  • ASSET TYPES
  • Geospatial
  • Text
  • Image
  • Media assets: sound and videoEphemera and intangible cultural heritage
  • Numerical or statistical information
  • TASK TYPES
  • OUTPUT TYPES
  • CONCLUSION
  • 4
  • Crowdsourcing applied: case studies
  • GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION
  • Community archaeology
  • Georeferencing
  • TEXT
  • Lexicography
  • Text interpretation
  • IMAGE
  • Classification of images
  • Tagging images
  • Investigating images
  • Researching (old) images
  • CONCLUSION
  • 5
  • Roles and communities
  • INTRODUCTION AND KEY QUESTIONS
  • SOLITARY ROLES VERSUS COLLABORATIVE ROLES
  • NETWORKS OF ROLESCOLLABORATIVE ROLES
  • ROLES AND EMPOWERMENT
  • ROLES AND CONFLICT
  • CONCLUSION
  • 6
  • Motivations and benefits
  • MOTIVATIONS, INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC
  • FROM COMMERCIAL TO ACADEMIC CROWDSOURCING
  • THE ROLE OF COMPETITION
  • LEARNING AND â#x80;#x98;UPSKILLINGâ#x80;#x99;
  • GAMIFICATION
  • COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL MOTIVATIONS
  • EVOLVING MOTIVATIONS
  • MOTIVATIONS OF ACADEMICS AND OTHER PROJECT ORGANIZERS
  • CONCLUSION
  • 7
  • Ethical issues in humanities crowdsourcing
  • WHAT DO WE MEAN BY ETHICS IN HUMANITIES CROWDSOURCING?
  • ETHICS AND THE CROWDSOURCING INDUSTRYLABOUR AND EXPLOITATION IN HUMANITIES CROWDSOURCING
  • WHOSE DATA IS IT ANYWAY?
  • PASTORAL CONCERNS AND PARTICIPANT WELL-BEING
  • CROWDSOURCING AS PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH
  • COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH
  • CONCLUSION
  • 8
  • Crowdsourcing and memory
  • INTRODUCTION
  • INTERNET MEMORY
  • COLLECTIVE MEMORY
  • INDIVIDUAL MEMORY
  • MEMORY AND STRUCTURE
  • GENERIC CROWD MEMORY: SHARED METHODOLOGICAL NARRATIVES
  • Transcribing
  • Collaborative tagging
  • Recording and creating content