Moving the crowd at Threadless: Motivations for participation in a crowdsourcing application

DC Brabham - Information, Communication & Society, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Crowdsourcing is an online, distributed problem-solving and production model already in
use by businesses such as Threadless. com, iStockphoto. com, and InnoCentive. com. This …

Moving the crowd at iStockphoto: The composition of the crowd and motivations for participation in a crowdsourcing application

DC Brabham - First monday, 2008 - firstmonday.org
Crowdsourcing is an online, distributed problem solving and production model already in
use by for–profit organizations such as Threadless, iStockphoto, and InnoCentive …

Crowdsourcing: A taxonomy and systematic mapping study

M Hosseini, A Shahri, K Phalp, J Taylor, R Ali - Computer Science Review, 2015 - Elsevier
Context: Crowdsourcing, or tapping into the power of the crowd for problem solving, has
gained ever-increasing attraction since it was first introduced. Crowdsourcing has been …

The myth of amateur crowds: A critical discourse analysis of crowdsourcing coverage

DC Brabham - Information, Communication & Society, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
This paper analyzes the discourse of amateurism as it relates to crowdsourcing, a now
relatively common model where organizations engage online communities to design goods …

[HTML][HTML] The motivations, enablers and barriers for voluntary participation in an online crowdsourcing platform

A Baruch, A May, D Yu - Computers in Human Behavior, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper examines the phenomena of online crowdsourcing from the perspectives of both
volunteers and the campaign coordinator of Tomnod–an online mapping project that uses …

Crowdsourcing fundamentals: definition and typology

E Estellés-Arolas, R Navarro-Giner… - Advances in …, 2015 - Springer
Crowdsourcing is a problem-solving and task realization model that is being increasingly
used. Thanks to the possibility of harnessing the collective intelligence from the Internet; …

Crowdsourcing as a model for problem solving: An introduction and cases

DC Brabham - Convergence, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Crowdsourcing is an online, distributed problem-solving and production model that has
emerged in recent years. Notable examples of the model include Threadless, iStockphoto …

Crowdsourcing: A new way of employing non-employees?

RC Ford, B Richard, MP Ciuchta - Business Horizons, 2015 - Elsevier
Interest in and enthusiasm for crowdsourcing is growing tremendously. But should
organizations contemplating the use of crowdsourcing view it as simply another means of …

Crowdsourcing: a comprehensive literature review

M Hossain, I Kauranen - Strategic Outsourcing: An International …, 2015 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore the development of crowdsourcing
literature. Design/methodology/approach–This study is a comprehensive review of 346 …

Understanding continued use of crowdsourcing systems: An interpretive study

W Soliman, VK Tuunainen - Journal of theoretical and applied electronic …, 2015 - mdpi.com
Crowdsourcing as a model for distributed problem solving has been rapidly gaining in
popularity. In investigating what drives the solvers to participate in crowdsourcing, the extant …