Crowdsourcing Fundamentals: Definition and Typology

Enrique Estellés-Arolas (), Raúl Navarro-Giner () and Fernando González-Ladrón- de-Guevara ()
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Enrique Estellés-Arolas: Catholic University of Valencia
Raúl Navarro-Giner: Catholic University of Valencia
Fernando González-Ladrón- de-Guevara: Technical University of Valencia

Chapter Chapter 3 in Advances in Crowdsourcing, 2015, pp 33-48 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Crowdsourcing is a problem-solving and task realization model that is being increasingly used. Thanks to the possibility of harnessing the collective intelligence from the Internet; thanks to the crowdsourcing initiatives people can, for example, find a solution to a complex chemical problem, get images tagged, or get a logo designed. Due to its success and usefulness, more and more researchers have focused their interest on this concept. This fact has shown that the concept of crowdsourcing has no clear boundaries, and although over time the concept has been better explained, some authors describe it differently, propose different types of crowdsourcing initiatives, or even use contradictory crowdsourcing examples. In this paper, an integrated definition and typology, developed in 2012, are analyzed to check whether they are still valid today or whether need a reformulation.

Keywords: Crowdsourcing; Typology; Definition; Crowd; Task; Web; Collective intelligence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-18341-1_3

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