Planet hunters and seafloor explorers: Legitimate peripheral participation through practice proxies in online citizen science

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 109-119

  Mugar, Gabriel ^a   Østerlund, Carsten ^a   Hassman, Katie Devries ^a   Crowston, Kevin ^b   Jackson, Corey Brian ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Legitimate peripheral participation; Situated learning; Social translucence; Socialization

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

CITIZEN SCIENCE; LEGITIMATE PERIPHERAL PARTICIPATIONS; SITUATED LEARNING; SOCIAL TRANSLUCENCE; SOCIALIZATION;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84898956478     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2531602.2531721     Document Type: Conference Paper

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