Crowdsourcing individual interpretations: Between microtasking and macrotasking.
Graduate student fellows of the Praxis Program at the University of Virginia Library have created Prism, a digital project to explore the possibilities of collaborative interpretation of texts, or ‘crowdsourced interpretation’. Prism was developed by two discrete teams of 1-year fellows with the Sch...
| Publicado en: | Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 379 - 387 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2014
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