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Articles on Crowdsourcing
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Buying and selling stocks – with real or play money – is a way to harness the wisdom of the crowd about questions like who is going to win a competition.
A recent extortion scam involved threatening to leave unfavourable reviews to restaurants unless they paid up shows the dangers of relying on the wisdom of crowds.
Geographers often talk about the ‘silences’ of maps – what’s missing and unseen. Those silences can be as meaningful as what’s shown.
As scientists frantically try to find drugs to slow COVID-19’s spread, citizen science offers an opportunity for all of us to get involved.
20 years ago, who could predict how much more researchers would know today about the human past – let alone what they could learn from a thimble of dirt, a scrape of dental plaque, or satellites in space.
Patents aren’t the only means of rewarding inventors, and they may not always be the best. Competitions work surprisingly well, if done properly.
Hundreds of archaeologists provided on-the-ground data from across the globe, providing a new view of the long and varied history of people transforming Earth’s environment.
A new book on so-called ‘new power’ can help us understand transformations in journalism like increased collaboration and use of digital technologies for investigative journalism.
Professor Samir Brahmachari’s innovative Open Source Drug Development allows thousands of researchers to work together to discover novel therapies for under-studied diseases.
The internet has been the bogeyman of democracy over the last 12 months. It’s time to harness its power and redress the balance.
We can overcome the tyranny of inaccessible science hardware by building a movement for equity in science.
Tools like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk allow psychology researchers to recruit test subjects from around the world. But the system can also be exploited.
If the site is increasingly where people are getting their news, what could the company do without taking up the mantle of being a final arbiter of truth?
This method of crowdsourcing science legwork is ready to expand into other disciplines – and maybe the amateurs themselves can start calling some of the shots.
The Italian government tried to limit the type of companies that could use crowd-sourced funding with poor results, Australia can learn from this.
If you want the best tool for making educated guesses, then you’d better get the basics right.
Our region’s peer-to-peer lending sector is sharply expanding, so regulators will need to grapple with it.
An advocate for the power of innovation to improve the world offers some cautions.
A “Yelp for people” app that offers crowdsourced opinions on people is a terrible idea, and probably illegal.
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Professor of Finance, University of Sydney
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Andrea Carson is a Friend of The Conversation.
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