
Academic Crowdsourcing in the Humanities
Crowds, Communities and Co-production
Description
Key Features
- Addresses crowdsourcing for the humanities and cultural material
- Provides a systematic, academic analysis of crowdsourcing concepts and methodologies
- Situates crowdsourcing conceptually within the context of related concepts, such as ‘citizen science’, ‘wisdom of crowds’, and ‘public engagement’
Readership
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
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
Product details
- No. of pages: 190
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Chandos Publishing 2017
- Published: November 10, 2017
- Imprint: Chandos Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081009413
- eBook ISBN: 9780081010457
About the Authors
Mark Hedges
Affiliations and Expertise
Stuart Dunn
Affiliations and Expertise
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