Dirty deeds done dirt cheap a darker side to crowdsourcing

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT/SocialCom 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1314-1317

  Harris, Christopher G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Computer ethics; Crowdsourcing; Social issues

Indexed keywords

ANONYMITY; COMPLEX TASK; COMPUTER ETHICS; CROWDSOURCING; ETHICAL STANDARDS; HUMAN COMPUTATION; SOCIAL ISSUES;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

EID: 84856139780     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.89     Document Type: Conference Paper

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