Keynote at OpenSym 2018

Submitted by crowston on Mon, 2018-08-27 15:07

I gave a keynote address at the OpenSym conference in Paris, France, on Challenges and Opportunities for Open Collaboration. You can see me in action:

Did they login? Patterns of anonymous contributions to online communities

Jackson, C. B., Crowston, K., & Østerlund, C.. (2018). Did they login? Patterns of anonymous contributions to online communities. In ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW). doi:10.1145/3274346

Folksonomies to support coordination and coordination of folksonomies

Jackson, C. B., Crowston, K., Østerlund, C., & Harandi, M.. (2018). Folksonomies to support coordination and coordination of folksonomies. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 27(3–6), 647–678. doi:10.1007/s10606-018-9327-z

Appealing to different motivations in a message to recruit citizen scientists: results of a field experiment

Preserving the margins: Supporting creativity and resistance on digital participatory platforms

Mugar, G. (2017). Preserving the margins: Supporting creativity and resistance on digital participatory platforms. Proceedings of the ACM: Human-Computer Interaction, 1(CSCW). doi:10.1145/3134718

Big Data Factories book has been published!

Submitted by crowston on Tue, 2017-12-05 07:39

The book has been published by Springer. The book discusses how to use the increasing flood of data created as a byproduct of online behaviour as a source for research. I have a chapter entitled "".

Looking for PhD students!

Submitted by crowston on Fri, 2017-09-15 11:53

I am interested in finding new PhD students interested in work and technology, especially work and intelligent machines. You can find more information on the program . Please get in touch if you have questions or are thinking about applying.

Coordinating advanced crowd work: Extending citizen science

Crowston, K., Mitchell, E. Michelle, & Østerlund, C.. (2018). Coordinating advanced crowd work: Extending citizen science. Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences. doi:10.24251/HICSS.2018.212

Stages of motivation for contributing user-generated content: A theory and empirical test

Crowston, K., & Fagnot, I.. (2018). Stages of motivation for contributing user-generated content: A theory and empirical test. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 109, 89-101. doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2017.08.005
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Researchers turn to “citizen scientists” for help identifying gravitational waves

Submitted by crowston on Wed, 2017-01-11 14:22

University of Alabama has a nice about Gravity Spy.

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