Crowdsourcing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a collection of innovative research on the methods and applications of crowdsourcing in business operations and management, science, healthcare, education, and politics.

Table of Contents

• Editor-in-Chief
• Associate Editors
• Editorial Advisory Board
• Preface
• Section 1: Fundamental Concepts and Theories
• Chapter 1: The Transformation of Collective Intelligence
• Chapter 2: Principles in Crowdfunding Benefits and Validation Tools
• Chapter 3: On the Configuration of Crowdsourcing Projects
• Chapter 4: Massive Open Program Evaluation
• Chapter 5: Digital Inclusion, Crowdfunding, and Crowdsourcing in Brazil
• Chapter 6: Using Virtual Environments to Transform Collective Intelligence
• Chapter 7: The Crowdfunding Market, Models, Platforms, and Projects
• Chapter 8: Toward a Typology of Crowdfunding Motivations
• Chapter 9: Towards Crowd-Driven Business Processes
• Section 2: Development and Design Methodologies
• Chapter 10: A Framework for Using Crowdsourcing in Government
• Chapter 11: Disruption and Deception in Crowdsourcing
• Chapter 12: Developing an Integration Framework for Crowdsourcing and Internet of Things With Applications for Disaster Response
• Chapter 13: The Influence of Crowdsourcing Business Model into Artificial Intelligence
• Chapter 14: Designing Effective Crowdsourcing Systems for the Healthcare Industry
• Chapter 15: A Business Model Framework for Crowd-Driven IoT Ecosystems
• Chapter 16: Concepts for the Design of a Manager-Centric Global Decision Support System for Organizations
• Chapter 17: Crowdfunding as an Open Innovation for Co-Creation
• Section 3: Tools and Technologies
• Chapter 18: Crowdsourcing as a Tool for Improving Learning in Tertiary Institutions in Developing Countries
• Chapter 19: Crowdsourcing the Disaster Management Cycle
• Chapter 20: Improving Accessibility Through VGI and Crowdsourcing
• Chapter 21: Crowdsourcing New Tools to Start Lean and Succeed in Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship in the Crowd Economy
• Chapter 22: Conducting Survey Research Using MTurk
• Chapter 23: The Lux Made in Case Study
• Chapter 24: Intermediation and Innovation Contests on the Internet
• Chapter 25: A Smart City Remembers Its Past
• Chapter 26: Crowdsourcing Social Innovation
• Chapter 27: PEER
• Chapter 28: Engaging With the Participatory Geoweb
• Chapter 29: Citizen-to-Citizen Resource Sharing in Emergency Response
• Chapter 30: More Than Just Networking for Citizen Science
• Chapter 31: Exploring the Role of Open Innovation Intermediaries
• Chapter 32: Digital Collaboration in Educational and Research Institutions
• Chapter 33: Digital Participatory Platforms for Co-Production in Urban Development
• Chapter 34: Social Bootstrapping
• Chapter 35: Collaborative Consumption as a Tool for Agricultural Expansion in Developing Countries
• Chapter 36: Collaborative and Educational Crowdsourcing of Spaceflight Software Using SPHERES Zero Robotics
• Chapter 37: Social Media Utilization for the Service Innovation
• Chapter 38: A Primer for Conducting Survey Research Using MTurk
• Chapter 39: The Infomediary Campaign in the Philippines as a Strategy to Alleviate Information Poverty
• Chapter 40: Traffic Analysis Based on Short Texts From Social Media
• Chapter 41: Free and Open Source Tools for Volunteer Geographic Information and Geo-Crowdsourcing
• Section 4: Utilization and Applications
• Chapter 42: Incorporating Global Medical Knowledge to Solve Healthcare Problems
• Chapter 43: Quality and Acceptance of Crowdsourced Translation of Web Content
• Chapter 44: Understanding Crowdsourcing of Agricultural Market Information in a Pilot Study
• Chapter 45: The Permissibility of Crowd Funding Within South Asia
• Chapter 46: Smart Activation of Citizens
• Chapter 47: Use of Social Media in Citizen-Centric Electronic Government Services
• Chapter 48: Electronic Collaboration in Organizations
• Chapter 49: A Route Recommender System Based on Current and Historical Crowdsourcing
• Chapter 50: Revisiting Software Engineering in the Social Era
• Chapter 51: How Do the Crowdfunders Judge the Crowdfunded?
• Chapter 52: Creating Shared Value and Increasing Project Success by Stakeholder Collaboration
• Chapter 53: Creating an Educational Social Network Based on the Private Cloud Simulation and User Interaction in Solving Educational Problems
• Chapter 54: Collective Intelligence in Online Education
• Chapter 55: The Crowdfunding Communities and the Value of Identification for Sustainability of Co-Creation
• Chapter 56: Open Source, Crowdsourcing, and Public Engagement
• Chapter 57: Between Davos and Porto Alegre
• Chapter 58: Quality Evaluation of Volunteered Geographic Information
• Chapter 59: Empowering Crisis Response-Led Citizen Communities
• Chapter 60: Managing Social Knowledge Management
• Chapter 61: Crowdsourcing Dispute Resolution
• Section 5: Organizational and Social Implications
• Chapter 62: Investigating Factors Influencing the Quality of Crowdsourced Work Under Different Incentives
• Chapter 63: “Do-It-Yourself Justice”
• Chapter 64: Crowdsourcing in Local Public Administration
• Chapter 65: The Crowdsourcing Scheme as an Innovative Management Tool in University Spin-Offs
• Chapter 66: The Potential of Crowdsourcing in the Health Care Industry
• Chapter 67: Emotional and Subjective Volunteered Geographical Information
• Chapter 68: Networks for Cyberactivism and Their Implications for Policymaking in Brazil
• Chapter 69: Enhancing Creativity in E-Planning
• Chapter 70: Dynamics of Pledge Behavior of Crowdfunded Projects
• Chapter 71: Value Creation in Business-to-Business Crowd Sourcing
• Chapter 72: Crowdsourcing Investigations
• Chapter 73: Philosophical Framing and Its Impact on Research
• Chapter 74: Sharing Semantic Territorial Interpretation
• Chapter 75: Crowdcasting
• Section 6: Critical Issues and Challenges
• Chapter 76: Beyond Micro-Tasks
• Chapter 77: Can Crowdfunding Provide a Solution for the Financial Problems of SMEs in Turkey?
• Chapter 78: Software Process Paradigms and Crowdsourced Software Development
• Chapter 79: There Is an App for That Too
• Chapter 80: Crowd Learning
• Chapter 81: Shared Practices in Articulating and Sharing Rationale
• Section 7: Emerging Trends
• Chapter 82: Translation Learning Environments for the Future
• Chapter 83: The Probabilistic Innovation Field of Scientific Enquiry