Why Won't Aliens Talk to Us? Content and Community Dynamics in Online Citizen Science

Keywords

Terminology, Multitude, Set (abstract data type), Citizen science, Domain (mathematical analysis)

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Cited by

• '/Command' and Conquer: Analysing Discussion in a Citizen Science GameRamine Tinati, Markus Luczak–Roesch, Elena Simperl — 2015
• From coincidence to purposeful flow? Properties of transcendental information cascadesMarkus Luczak–Roesch, Ramine Tinati, Max Van Kleek — 2015
• When Resources Collide: Towards a Theory of Coincidence in Information SpacesMarkus Luczak–Roesch, Ramine Tinati, Nigel Shadbolt — 2015
• Online citizen science projects : an exploration of motivation, contribution and participationVickie Curtis — 2015
• Collective Intelligence in Citizen Science - A Study of Performers and TalkersRamine Tinati, Elena Simperl, Markus Luczak–Roesch — 2014
• Motivations for Sustained Participation in Crowdsourcing: Case Studies of Citizen Science on the Role of TalkCorey Jackson, Carsten Østerlund, Gabriel Mugar — 2015
• Motivation to Participate in an Online Citizen Science GameVickie Curtis — 2015
• Using WikiProjects to Measure the Health of WikipediaRamine Tinati, Markus Luczak–Roesch, Nigel Shadbolt — 2015
• Finding Volunteers' Engagement Profiles in Human Computation for Citizen Science ProjectsLesandro Ponciano, Francisco Brasileiro — 2014
• A collaboration model for community-based Software Development with social machinesDave Murray-Rust, Ognjen Šćekić, Hong‐Linh Truong — 2014
• Talking in the Zooniverse: A collaborative tool for citizen scientistsL. Fortson, Stuart Lynn — 2014
• Science Learning via Participation in Online Citizen ScienceKaren L. Masters, Eun Young Oh, Joe Cox — 2016
• Because science is awesome: studying participation in a citizen science gameRamine Tinati, Markus Luczak–Roesch, Elena Simperl — 2016
• The rise of social machines: The development of a human/digital ecosystemNigel Shadbolt, Max Van Kleek, Reuben Binns — 2016
• Leveraging Pattern Recognition Consistency Estimation for Crowdsourcing Data AnalysisLior Shamir, Derek Diamond, John Wallin — 2016
• Exploring the global adoption of citizen scienceRamine Tinati, Markus Luczak–Roesch, Elena Simperl — 2015
• Observing Social Machines Part 2: How to Observe?David De Roure, Clare Hooper, Kevin Page — 2015
• Citizen Inquiry: Engaging Citizens in Online Communities of Scientific InquiriesMaria Aristeidou — 2016
• From Crowd to Community: A Survey of Online Community Features in Citizen Science ProjectsNeal Reeves, Ramine Tinati, Sergej Zerr — 2017
• Crowdsourcing citizen science: exploring the tensions between paid professionals and usersJamie Woodcock, Anita Greenhill, Kate Holmes — 2017

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