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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… Read more
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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.
Researchers and graduate students in the digital humanities; researchers and graduate students in library and information science; information professionals in higher education and research institutions, including academic librarians
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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