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Finally, the definition given by Wikipedia can be found. According to this source, crowdsourcing is …
… the act of sourcing tasks traditionally performed by specific individuals to a group of people or community (crowd) through an open call.
As I said before, these are just the 3 most used of all the definitions found (up to 40 definitions). In almost all cases, each definition is focused on some aspect or feature of the application of crowdsourcing in a particular area.
Crowdsourcing is a type of participative online activity in which an individual, an institution, a non-profit organization, or company proposes to a group of individuals of varying knowledge, heterogeneity, and number, via a flexible open call, the voluntary undertaking of a task. The undertaking of the task, of variable complexity and modularity, and in which the crowd should participate bringing their work, money, knowledge and/or experience, always entails mutual benefit. The user will receive the satisfaction of a given type of need, be it economic, social recognition, self-esteem, or the development of individual skills, while the crowdsourcer will obtain and utilize to their advantage that what the user has brought to the venture, whose form will depend on the type of activity undertaken.
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In future posts, I will analyze each of the elements that make up this definition, each of the elements that represent a differentia specifica.
¿What do you think about the definition?
- Estellés-Arolas, E. & González Ladrón-de-Guevara, F. (2012) Towards an integrated crowdsourcing definition. Journal of Information Science (in press) (JCR: 1,41)
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- Howe J., The rise of crowdsourcing, Wired 14(6) (2006)
- Brabham D. C., Moving the crowd at iStockphoto: The composition of the crowd and motivations for participation in a crowdsourcing application, First Monday 13(6) (2008)
- Brabham D. C., Crowdsourcing as a Model for Problem Solving: An Introduction and Cases, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 14(1) (2008) 75-90.
- Wikipedia, Crowdsourcing. Accesible: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing