Purpose Despite the on going shift from text-based to image-based communication in the
social web, supported by the affordances of smartphones, little is known about the new …

Crowdsourcing is a term that was coined in 2006 to describe how the commercial sector was
beginning to outsource problems or tasks to the public through an open call for solutions …

This paper reviews a wide range of scholarly and popular literature to provide an overview
of the current state of online user–generated content (UGC). We describe the UGC value …

The relationship between financial incentives and performance, long of interest to social
scientists, has gained new relevance with the advent of web-based" crowd-sourcing" models …

Billions of people participate in online social activities. Most users participate as readers of
discussion boards, searchers of blog posts, or viewers of photos. A fraction of users become …

In recent years we have witnessed a significant growth of social‐computing communities—
online services in which users share information in various forms. As content contributions …

Social media provides big data for researchers to perform real-time analytics, as digital
ethnographers, on what places and attributes people value in the historic urban landscapes …

Governments increasingly turn to the Internet to aid in transparency, accountability, and
public participation activities, and there is growing interest in innovative online problem …

To hear the critics tell it, one problem with emergent digital literary and art forms is that they
don't yet have established stars. Where's our Shakespeare of the Screen? Our Pixel …

Social networking sites (SNSs) are said to be new important means of participating,
communicating, and gaining social capital. Thus, increasingly fragmented user population …