A Conceptualisation of Crowd Knowledge

Blesik, Till; Bick, Markus; Kummer, Tyge

doi:10.1007/s10796-021-10176-y

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“…Crowdsourcing in a school context has already been evaluated by Zualkernan [57,58] and Qutaifan et al [59], who investigated the ability of teachers in a developing country to create and contribute high-quality multiple-choice questions for primary school students, thereby increasing crowd knowledge, which according to Blesik et al [60] can be defined as "a collaborative aggregation of context-dependent information contributed and used by participants that is stored in an artefact and provided to fulfil a purpose". According to Ren [61] and Malhotra and Kubowicz [62], the number and quality of new ideas received from a crowd can be increased by providing a diverse set of examples of good and bad ideas, as well as a series of modifications of initial ideas.…”

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confidence: 99%

Financing Green Infrastructure in Schools: A Case Study in Austria

Teichmann,

Korjenic,

Sreckovic

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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Despite the positive effects of green infrastructure on people and the environment, it is still rarely integrated in public facilities such as schools. The main reason for this is a lack of knowledge about financing options. To fill this gap, the research project MehrGrüneSchulen (Engl.: More Green Schools) develops financing scenarios for green infrastructure in Austrian schools. This case study describes these developed scenarios, which use the principles of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding as well as the newly named principle of chain building. The idea of chain building is to motivate schools that have already successfully financed and built a low-cost greening system to present this process to another school in such a way that they are able to do the same themselves and eventually explain the process to a further school to continue this chain reaction. For the proposed funding scenarios to be effective, there is a need for innovation in education, with a focus on inter-school participation and networking. For this reason, the possible synergies of an online networking platform are discussed, which would help to connect schools and thus further improve the impact of the proposed fundraising processes.

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confidence: 99%

Financing Green Infrastructure in Schools: A Case Study in Austria

Teichmann,

Korjenic,

Sreckovic

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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“…Within a crowdsourcing platform, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), job requesters publish microtasks through an open call to an undefined number of workers (Blesik et al, 2021). These microtasks are called Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs), and typically are easier for humans to solve rather than for computers, but require the participation of the crowd due to their large volume.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Unintended Consequences of Automated Scripts in Crowdwork Platforms: A Simulation Study in MTurk

2023

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Crowdworkers on platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk face growing competition as a result of the global excess supply of digital labour. As a result, many crowdworkers are turning to automated scripts, which help them locate better tasks faster and to boost their earnings. However, to date, it is not clear whether and to what extent the use of such scripts influence the opportunities for those crowdworkers who do not use them. This an important aspect that warrants further exploration because it can have negative implications for the health of crowdwork platforms. In this study, we use Discrete Event Simulation to identify and quantify the unintended consequences of the excessive use of automated scripts. Our findings show that, while the use of scripts allows some crowdworkers to identify and accept far more tasks than others, in the long run, this behaviour results in their competence persistence and reputational persistence and progressively to detrimental impacts for those workers who do not use scripts, and who may ultimately be forced to exit the platform. As a result, automated scripts have negative consequences, whereby their excessive use leads to a tragedy of the commons for all platform stakeholders, including the crowdworkers, the job requesters and the platform itself.

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