Crowdsourcing
is a cool concept. It assumes that everyone has one aspect of information. Like
one classmate mentioned, everyone can share the traffic information via the
waze app. I think this is very cool. Even if the camera could take photos of major
moments, but it cannot consistently take photos of the whole scene. You know,
due to the angle limitation, it is impossible for the camera to record every
corner of the traffic. If one accident happens, it will be quicker for someone
to call 911 than waiting for the camera report.
I also think it is cool to ask everyone to tweet the flood location.
Even though there is a risk of inaccurate information, there is big chance that
someone would save others’ life by recording detailed information.
I actually
think the concept of crowdsourcing can be utilized for research. According to the crowdsourcing, everyone can
offer valuable information. For example, it is hard to recruit parents and
children on the national level to ask them about how they view the effects of “genius
hours” on students’ creativity. But it’s easy for the researcher to put the survey
online via the Twitter. Followers for the researcher can participate in the
survey, and then retweet the survey. I think via the Twitter, an online survey can
go to everyone who has one twitter account.
However,” crowdsourcing
is a very controversial concept, especially because it is now applied to so
many fields. The crowd has become the source for a great variety of tasks and
the incentives are heterogenous as well. The lack of boundaries between
work and play makes it so difficult to evaluate crowdsourcing and it gets
particularly tricky when the projects are profit-oriented “ https://re-publica.de/session/crowdsourcing-design-good-bad-and-ugly
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