An excerpt from one of the most exciting call for papers i have received recently:
This session is interested in people, places and cultures that have for various reasons been overlooked, regarded as old-fashioned or too readily classed as mundane, non-spectacular, even ‘amateur’. Papers will discuss a culture of exploration that involves romance, revery, […]
At the Eye On Earth Summit, a special working group has been devoted to crowdsourcing for environmental purposes. The White Paper introducing the discussion is a very clear presentation of the field, and it is useful for a broad audience – from citizens interested into the potential of social media to scientists writing their […]
The MIT Media Lab online application Place Pulse (presented at Ars Electronica 2011) aims to make quantitative estimates of fuzzy qualities by crowdsourcing binary choices from the public: if you visit pulse.media.mit.edu, you are shown two photos and asked to select the one referring to the “hotter” […]
Despite David Cameron protests, social networks have played multiple roles in the whole UK riot story. For example, crowdmaps have been created to gather real-time information about ongoing events and help the post-riot cleanup. Blogs too have helped the communities for transportation and street cleaning. Even the Met Police had created a Flickr webpage […]
There has been a lot of buzz in the Internet about the icelandic “crowdsourced” constitutional reform. The Iceland government is actually doing a very good job by involving people through social networks in the reform process. However, it is not clear how comments collected through Facebook and the other social tools will be taken […]
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