Planet hunters and seafloor explorers: legitimate peripheral participation through practice proxies in online citizen science
Planet hunters and seafloor explorers: legitimate peripheral participation through practice proxies in online citizen science
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行星猎人和海底探险家：通过在线公民科学实践代理的合法外围参与
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10.1145/2531602.2531721
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2014
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C. Jackson
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Gabriel H. Mugar;Carsten S. Østerlund;K. Hassman;Kevin Crowston;C. Jackson
研究表明，让用户参与在线众包活动的过程可视化有助于新用户理解参与规范[2]。然而，在很多情况下，参与者无法完全了解他人的工作。我们将合法的边缘性参与理论[18]与埃里克森和凯洛格的社会透明度理论[10, 11, 16]相结合，引入了实践代理的概念：在线环境中用户参与的痕迹，可作为引导新手了解实践规范的资源。通过虚拟民族志[14]和痕迹民族志[12]相结合的方法，我们探究了两个在线公民科学项目中的新用户如何利用这些实践痕迹，以此作为弥补无法了解工作本身过程的一种方式。我们的研究结果表明，新手会在项目的社交功能中寻找实践代理，这些社交功能突出了主要工作实践的情境化和特定特征。
Making visible the process of user participation in online crowdsourced initiatives has been shown to help new users understand the norms of participation [2]. However, in many settings, participants lack full access to others' work. Merging the theory of legitimate peripheral participation [18] with Erickson and Kellogg's theory of social translucence [10, 11, 16] we introduce the concept of practice proxies: traces of user participation in online environments that act as resources to orient newcomers towards the norms of practice. Through a combination of virtual [14] and trace ethnography [12] we explore how new users in two online citizen science projects engage with these traces of practice as a way of compensating for a lack of access to the process of the work itself. Our findings suggest that newcomers seek out practice proxies in the social features of the projects that highlight contextualized and specific characteristics of primary work practice.