Collective Action and Human Computation - From Crowd-Workers to Social Collectives

This chapter discusses how human computation can be conceptualized as a specific method within a broader context of collaborative systems. It considers how the theory of collective action and existing models of computer-supported collaboration can inform the design of new approaches to human computation. Accordingly, it proposes a conceptual design framework for collaborative human computation and illustrates its application to a prototypical design of an application integrating human computation with collective action.

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