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

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

Mark Hedges, Stuart Dunn

(Chandos information professional series)

Chandos Publishing, an imprint of Elsevier, c2018

  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references(p.159-168) and index

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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. Crowdsourcing projects in the humanities have, for the most part, focused on the generation or enhancement of content in a variety of ways, leveraging the rich resources of knowledge, creativity, effort and interest among the public to contribute to academic discourse. This book explores methodologies, tactics and the "citizen science" involved.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: academic crowdsourcing from the periphery to the centre 2. From citizen science to community co-production 3. Processes and products: a typology of crowdsourcing 4. Crowdsourcing applied: case studies 5. Roles and communities 6. Motivations and benefits 7. Ethical issues in humanities crowdsourcing 8. Crowdsourcing and memory 9. Crowds past, present and future

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