Tag: crowd sourcing
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What explains the worldwide patterns in user-generated geographical content?
As geographic content and geospatial information becomes increasingly integral to our everyday lives, places that…
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What is stopping greater representation of the MENA region?
Negotiating the wider politics of Wikipedia can be a daunting task, particularly when in it…
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How well represented is the MENA region in Wikipedia?
There are more Wikipedia articles in English than Arabic about almost every Arabic speaking country…
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The sum of (some) human knowledge: Wikipedia and representation in the Arab World
Arabic is one of the least represented major world languages on Wikipedia: few languages have…
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Past and Emerging Themes in Policy and Internet Studies
– in Social Data ScienceIt is simply not possible to consider public policy today without some regard for the…
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The social economies of networked cultural production (or, how to make a movie with complete strangers)
Looking at “networked cultural production”—ie the creation of cultural goods like films through crowdsourcing platforms—specifically…
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Edit wars! Measuring and mapping society’s most controversial topics
Although some topics are globally debated, like religion and politics, there are many topics which…
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The physics of social science: using big data for real-time predictive modelling
There are very interesting examples of using big data to make predictions about disease outbreaks,…
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Verification of crowd-sourced information: is this ‘crowd wisdom’ or machine wisdom?
– in Social Data ScienceThe problem with computer code is that it is invisible, and that it makes it…
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Can Twitter provide an early warning function for the next pandemic?
While traditional surveillance systems will remain the pillars of public health, online media monitoring has…
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Who represents the Arab world online?
The Middle East and North Africa are relatively under-represented in Wikipedia. Even after accounting for…
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Harnessing ‘generative friction’: can conflict actually improve quality in open systems?
The more that differing points of view and differing evaluative frames came into contact, the…