Crowdsourcing citizen science: exploring the tensions between paid professionals and users
This paper explores the relationship between paid labour and unpaid users within the Zooniverse, a crowdsourced citizen science platform. The platform brings together a crowd of users to categorise data for use in scientific projects. It was initially established by a small group of academics for a...
Main Authors: | Woodcock, J, Greenhill, A, Holmes, K, Graham, G, Cox, J, Oh, E, Masters, K |
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Format: | Journal article |
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Journal of Peer Production
2017
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