Motivations for sustained participation in crowdsourcing: Case studies of citizen science on the role of talk

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 2015-March, Issue , 2015, Pages 1624-1634

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

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen Science; Crowdsourcing; Legitimate peripheral participation; Motivation

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; MOTIVATION;

CASE-STUDIES; CITIZEN SCIENCE; LEGITIMATE PERIPHERAL PARTICIPATIONS; SHARE KNOWLEDGE; SUPPORT KNOWLEDGE; TECHNICAL FEATURES; TRACE DATA;

CROWDSOURCING;

EID: 84944245831     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2015.196     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (27)

1. J. Howe, "The Rise of Crowdsourcing, " Wired Magazine, Jun-2006. [Online]. Available: http://www. wired. com/wired /archive/14. 06/crowds-pr. html.
2. S. L. Bryant, A. Forte, and A. Bruckman, "Becoming Wikipedian: Transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia, " presented at the Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work, 2005, pp. 1-10.
3. J. Preece and B. Shneiderman, "The reader-to-leader framework: Motivating technology-mediated social participation, " AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 13-32, Mar. 2009.
4. J. Antin, C. Cheshire, and O. Nov, "Technology-mediated contributions: editing behaviors among new wikipedians, " presented at the Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2012, pp. 373-382.
5. K. Panciera, A. Halfaker, and L. Terveen, "Wikipedians are born, not made, " presented at the Proceedinfs of the ACM 2009 international conference, New York, New York, USA, 2009
6. G. Mugar, C. Østerlund, K. D. Hassman, K. Crowston, and C. B. Jackson, "Planet hunters and seafloor explorers: legitimate peripheral participation through practice proxies in online citizen science, " presented at the the 17th ACM conference, New York, New York, USA, 2014, pp. 109-119.
7. C. Østerlund, G. Mugar, C. B. Jackson, K. D. Hassman, and K. Crowston, "Socializing the Crowd: Learning to talk in citizen science, " presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, OCIS Division, Philadelphia, PA.
8. D. M. Wilkinson, "Strong regularities in online peer production, " presented at the EC '08: Proceedings of the 9th ACM conference on Electronic commerce, 2008.
9. D. Rotman, J. Preece, J. Hammock, K. Procita, D. Hansen, C. Parr, D. Lewis, and D. Jacobs, "Dynamic changes in motivation in collaborative citizen-science projects, " presented at the Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2012, pp. 217-226.
10. K. Crowston and I. Fagnot, "The motivational arc of massive virtual collaboration, " presented at the Proceedings of the IFIP WG 9. 5 Working Conference on Virtuality and Society: Massive Virtual Communities, 2008.
11. J. Lave and E. Wenger, Situated Learning. Legitimate Peripheral Participation. NY: Cambridge University Press., 1991.
12. E. Wenger, Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives). Cambridge University Press., 2000.
13. W. Ke and P. Zhang, "Participating in Open Source Software Projects: The Role of Empowerment, " presented at the SIGHCI 2008 Proceedings, 2008.
14. Y. Fang and D. Neufeld, "Understanding Sustained Participation in Open Source Software Projects, " Journal of Management Information Systems, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 9-50, Apr. 2009.
15. N. Ducheneaut, "Socialization in an Open Source Software Community: A Socio-Technical Analysis, " Comput Supported Coop Work, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 323-368, Jul. 2005.
16. J. Wilson, "Volunteering, " Annual review of sociology, vol. 26, pp. 215-240, Jan. 2000.
17. R. J. Hackman and G. R. Oldham, Work redesign. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1980.
18. G. Marshall, Ed., A Dictionary of Sociology. Oxford: Oxford, 1998.
19. J. Antin, J. Antin, J. Antin, C. Cheshire, C. Cheshire, and C. Cheshire, "Readers are not free-riders: Reading as a form of participation on Wikipedia, " presented at the Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work, 2010, pp. 127-130.
20. G. Mugar, C. Østerlund, K. D. Hassman, K. Crowston, and C. B. Jackson, "Planet hunters and seafloor explorers, " presented at the the 17th ACM conference, New York, New York, USA, 2014, pp. 109-119.
21. A. Halfaker, A. Halfaker, O. Keyes, O. Keyes, D. Taraborelli, and D. Taraborelli, "Making peripheral participation legitimate: Reader engagement experiments in wikipedia, " the 2013 conference, pp. 849-860, Feb. 2013.
22. K. D. Hassman, G. Mugar, C. Østerlund, and C. Jackson, "Learning at the Seafloor, Looking at the Sky: The Relationship Between Individual Tasks and Collaborative Engagement in Two Citizen Science Projects, " In proceedings for 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Jun. 2013.
23. M. Luczak-Roesch, R. Tinati, E. Simperl, M. Van Kleek, N. Shadbolt, and R. Simpson, "Why Won't Aliens Talk to Us? Content and Community Dynamics in Online Citizen Science, " presented at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2014.
24. "Trace ethnography: Following coordination through documentary practices, " pp. 1-10, Sep. 2010.
25. C. Hine, "Virtual ethnography, " 2000.
26. I. Iacovides, C. Jennett, C. Cornish-Trestrail, and A. L. Cox, "Do games attract or sustain engagement in citizen science?: A study of volunteer motivations, " presented at the CHI'13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2013, pp. 1101-1106.
27. C. J. Lintott, K. Schawinski, W. Keel, H. van Arkel, N. Bennert, E. Edmondson, D. Thomas, D. J. B. Smith, P. D. Herbert, M. J. Jarvis, S. Virani, D. Andreescu, S. P. Bamford, K. Land, P. Murray, R. C. Nichol, M. J. Raddick, A. Slosar, A. Szalay, and J. Vandenberg, "Galaxy Zoo: 'Hanny's Voorwerp', a quasar light echo?, " Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 399, no. 1, pp. 129-140, Oct. 2009.