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Assessing crowdsourcing technologies to collect public opinion around an urban renovation project
How do you increase the quality of feedback without placing citizens on different-level playing fields…
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Crowdsourcing ideas as an emerging form of multistakeholder participation in Internet governance
Assessing the extent to which crowdsourcing represents an emerging opportunity of participation in global public…
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Creating a semantic map of sexism worldwide: topic modelling of content from the “Everyday Sexism” project
– in Social Data ScienceWhat are the most common types of sexism globally, and (how) do they relate to…
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Ethics in Networked Systems Research: ACM SigComm Workshop Report
– in EthicsExperimentation and research on the Internet require ethical scrutiny in order to give useful feedback…
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Using Wikipedia as PR is a problem, but our lack of a critical eye is worse
That Wikipedia is used for less-than scrupulously neutral purposes shouldn’t surprise us – our lack…
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Crowdsourcing for public policy and government
The growing interest in crowdsourcing for government and public policy must be understood in the…
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Current alternatives won’t light up Britain’s broadband blackspots
Satellites, microwaves, radio towers – how many more options must be tried before the government…
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Should we love Uber and Airbnb or protest against them?
– in EconomicsSome theorists suggest that such platforms are making our world more efficient by natural selection.…
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Uber and Airbnb make the rules now — but to whose benefit?
Outlining a more nuanced theory of institutional change that suggests that platforms’ effects on society…
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Why are citizens migrating to Uber and Airbnb, and what should governments do about it?
What if we dug into existing social science theory to see what it has to…
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How big data is breathing new life into the smart cities concept
If all the cars have GPS devices, all the people have mobile phones, and all…
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Iris scanners can now identify us from 40 feet away
Public anxiety and legal protections currently pose a major challenge to anyone wanting to introduce…