The theory and practice of social machines. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nigel Shadbolt, Kieron O'Hara, David De Roure, Wendy Hall.
• Authors: Shadbolt, Nigel, 1956-; O'Hara, Kieron; De Roure, David C; Hall, Wendy, 1952-
• Contents: Intro; Preface and Acknowledgments; Contents; About the Authors; Chapter 1: Characterising Social Machines; Introduction; What Is a Social Machine? The Machine Metaphor; Ten Aspects of Machines; Mechanistic Explanation; Building Blocks of Social Machines; Heterogeneous Human-Computer Networks; Social Computing; Communication; Communication and Engagement Within Social Machines; Communication as Annotation; Platforms and Communities; Social Machines and Their Ecosystems; From Network to Activity; Ethical Concepts; The Dark Side; Some Examples of Social Machines; Wikipedia; Citizen Science HealthcarePokémon Go!; Classifying Social Machines; Social Machines and Related Paradigms; Defining Social Machines; Analysing and Engineering: A Social Machine Lens; Chapter 2: Theory; Introduction; Social Machines as Social; Narratives; Prosopography; Example Narrative 1: Retweeting; Example Narrative 2: Green Peas in 12 Moments; Wayfaring; Transcendental Information Cascades; Example Application of Transcendental Information Cascades 1: Citizen Science; Example Application of Transcendental Information Cascades 2: Wikipedia; Decomposing Reflexivity Social Computing and Diversity: Mandevillian IntelligenceSocial Machines as Machines; The Lightweight Social Calculus; Shadow Institutions; Sociograms; Modelling Coordination and Quality Constraints; Data; Annotation; Annotations and Data; Annotations vs. Data?; Provenance; Use Cases for Provenance in Social Machines; Functional Use Cases; Audit Use Cases; Privacy and Security Use Cases; Administrative Use Cases; Provenance Methodology; Standardisation; Templates; Composition; Summarisation; Provenance Network Analytics; Deriving Provenance for Social Computation Provenance for the Study of Social MachinesExample 1: Capturing Provenance in a Ride Share Application; Example 2: Simulating a Social Machine; Social Machines for Crowdsourcing Provenance; Example 1: Scholarly Communication and Data Citation; Example 2: Open Data Quality; Chapter 3: Practice; Introduction; Gathering the Evidence: The Web Observatory; A Social Machine Observatory: The Vision; Building the Web Observatory; Architecture; The Southampton University Web Observatory (SUWO); Data; API; SUWO for Web Science; Modelling the Crowd; Example: Motivations for Participation Example: Social and/or Financial IncentivesExample: Disengagement; Citizen Science: The Example of Zooniverse; Zooniverse Architecture; Designing Platforms for Citizen Science; Task Specificity; Community Development; Task Design; Public Relations and Engagement; Data to Feed Back: Studying Social Machines in Citizen Science; Social Machines in Action: Further Examples; Mathematical Social Machines; Political Social Machines; Musical Social Machines; Wikipedia: A Creative Social Machine; Chapter 4: Privacy, Trust and Ethical Issues; Introduction; The Ethics of Social Machines
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 004.6; Internet -- Social aspects; Information technology -- Social aspects; COMPUTERS / Computer Science; COMPUTERS / Data Processing; COMPUTERS / Information Technology; COMPUTERS / Machine Theory; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030108892; 3030108899
• Related ISBNs: 9783030108885; 3030108880
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 20, 2019).
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