Comparing the use of social networking and traditional media channels for promoting citizen science

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1463-1468

  Robson, Christine ^a,b,c   Hearst, Marti A ^a   Kau, Chris ^c   Pierce, Jeff ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^c IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Samsung UX Innovations   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Crowdsourcing; Social networking

Indexed keywords

CITIZEN SCIENCE; CONVERSION RATES; CROWDSOURCING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS; MEDIA CHANNEL; PRESS RELEASE; PROMOTIONAL CAMPAIGN; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PUBLIC RELATIONS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84874865903     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2441776.2441941     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (20)

1. Eytan Bakshy, Jake M. Hofman, Winter A. Mason, and Duncan J. Watts. Everyone's an influencer: quantifying influence on Twitter. In WSDM'11, pages 65-74, ACM, 2011.
2. Rick Bonney, et al. Public participation in scientific research: Defining the field and assessing its potential for informal science education. CAISE inquiry group report, Washington, DC, Tech. Report, 2009.
3. Kevin Crowston and Andrea Wiggins. Design for citizen science. Final Workshop Report, NSF Grants 09- 43049 & 11-11107, 2011.
4. Nicole B. Ellison, Charles Steinfeld, and Cliff Lampe. The benefits of Facebook "Friends:" Social capital and college students' use of online social network sites. In Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, volume 12(4), article 1, 2007.
5. Alexander Hars and Shaosong Ou. Working for Free? - Motivations of Participating in Open Source Projects. In HICSS'01, volume 7, page 7014, IEEE, 2001.
6. th WebKDD, 56-65, ACM, 2007.
7. Adam N. Joinson. Looking at, looking up or keeping up with people?: motives and use of Facebook. In CHI'08, pages 1027-1036, ACM, 2008.
8. Sunyoung Kim, Christine Robson, Thomas Zimmerman, Jeffrey Pierce, and Eben M. Haber. Creek watch: pairing usefulness and usability for successful citizen science. In CHI'11. ACM, 2011.
9. Stacey Kuznetsov, William Odom, James Pierce, and Eric Paulos. Nurturing natural sensors. In UbiComp'11, ACM, 2011.
10. Cliff Lampe and Rebecca Roth. Implementing social media in public sector organizations. In iConference'12, pages 191-198, ACM, 2012.
11. Oded Nov, David Anderson, and Ofer Arazy. Volunteer computing: A model of the factors determining contribution to community-based scientific research. In WWW'10. ACM, 2010.
12. Oded Nov, Ofer Arazy, and David Anderson. Crowdsourcing for science: understanding and enhancing SciSourcing contribution. Workshop on the Changing Dynamics of Scientific Collaborations, at CSCW'10. ACM, 2010.
13. Eric Paulos, R.J. Honicky, and Ben Hooker. Citizen Science: Enabling Participatory Urbanism. In Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City. IGI Global, 2008.
14. Christine Robson, Sean Kandel, Jeffrey Heer, and Jeffrey S. Pierce. Data collection by the people, for the people. In CHI'11 Extended Abstracts, ACM 2012.
15. Dana Rotman, et al. Dynamic changes in motivation in collaborative citizen science projects. In CSCW'12, pages 217-226, ACM, 2012.
16. Shirley B. Rouse and Barbara Clawson. Motives and incentives of older adult volunteers. In Journal of Extension, Vol 30, pages 9-12, 1992.
17. Paul A. Stewart. The Value of the Christmas Bird Counts. The Wilson Bulletin, volume 66 (3), pages 184-195, 1954.
18. Chris Wood, Brian Sullivan, Marshall Iliff, Daniel Fink, and Steve Kelling. eBird: Engaging Birders in Science and Conservation. In PLoS Biol volume 9(12): document number e1001220, 2011.
19. Andrea Wiggins and Kevin Crowston. From conservation to crowdsourcing: A typology of citizen science. In HICSS'11, 1- 10, Jan 2011.
20. John Wilson and Marc Musick. Who cares? Toward an integrated theory of volunteer work. In American Sociological Review, Vol 62(5), pages 694-713, 1997.