Crowdsourcing: A Flexible Method for Innovation, Data Collection, and Analysis in Social Science Research

Social Media, Sociality, and Survey Research

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 179-201

  Keating, Michael ^a   Rhodes, Bryan ^a   Richards, Ashley ^a  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdsourced data collection; Crowdsourcing; Data analysis; Open innovation; Sentiment analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962262829     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118751534.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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