Crowd design : from tools for empowerment to platform capitalism / Florian Alexander Schmidt.

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Schmidt, Florian A [author.]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9783035610673
3035610673
9783035610512
3035610517
303561198X
9783035611984

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Electronic books.

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745.4 23

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HD66.2

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DES000000 | DES007000

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Contents:

Introduction: Coming to terms with crowdsourcing -- chapter one. The reinvention of the Crowd -- chapter two. Early concepts of online collaboration -- chapter three The design of crowdsourcing -- chapter four. The crowdsourcing of design -- Conclusion. Towards an ethics of creative crowdwork.

Summary: "The digital revolution is interwoven with the promise to empower the user. Yet, the rise of centralized, commercial platforms for crowdsourced work questions the validity of this narrative. In Crowd-Design, Florian Alexander Schmidt analyses the workings and the rhetoric of crowdsourced work platforms by comparing the way they address the masses today with historic notions of the crowd. The utopian concepts of early online collaboration are taken as a vantage point from which to view and critique current and, at times, dystopian applications of crowdsourced work. The study is focused on the crowdsourcing of design tasks, but these specific applications are used to examine the design of the more general mechanisms employed by the platform providers to motivate and control the crowds. Crowd-Design is as much about the crowdsourcing of design as it is about the design of crowdsourcing"-- Provided by publisher

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"The digital revolution is interwoven with the promise to empower the user. Yet, the rise of centralized, commercial platforms for crowdsourced work questions the validity of this narrative. In Crowd-Design, Florian Alexander Schmidt analyses the workings and the rhetoric of crowdsourced work platforms by comparing the way they address the masses today with historic notions of the crowd. The utopian concepts of early online collaboration are taken as a vantage point from which to view and critique current and, at times, dystopian applications of crowdsourced work. The study is focused on the crowdsourcing of design tasks, but these specific applications are used to examine the design of the more general mechanisms employed by the platform providers to motivate and control the crowds. Crowd-Design is as much about the crowdsourcing of design as it is about the design of crowdsourcing"-- Provided by publisher