The communication network within the crowd

25th International World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 1293-1303

  Yin, Ming ^a   Gray, Mary L ^b   Suri, Siddharth ^b   Vaughan, Jennifer Wortman ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Mechanical Turk; Networks; Online forums

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; MAPPING; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TOPOLOGY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AMAZON MECHANICAL TURKS; BLACK BOX APPROACH; BLACK BOXES; CROWDSOURCING PLATFORMS; MECHANICAL TURKS; NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ONLINE FORUMS;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 85014793355     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2872427.2883036     Document Type: Conference Paper

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