Crowdsourced science: sociotechnical epistemology in the e-research paradigm.
Recent years have seen a surge in online collaboration between experts and amateurs on scientific research. In this article, we analyse the epistemological implications of these crowdsourced projects, with a focus on Zooniverse, the world's largest citizen science web portal. We use quantitative met...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 195; no. 2; pp. 741 - 765 |
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