Why Won't Aliens Talk to Us? Content and Community Dynamics in Online Citizen Science
Why Won't Aliens Talk to Us? Content and Community Dynamics in Online Citizen Science
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外星人为什么不和我们说话？
DOI：
10.1609/icwsm.v8i1.14539
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2014
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R. J. Simpson
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作者：
Markus Luczak;Ramine Tinati;E. Simperl;M. V. Kleek;N. Shadbolt;R. J. Simpson
我们对Zooniverse平台上的十个公民科学项目进行了定量分析，使用了2010年12月至2013年7月期间收集的超过5000万条活动记录和超过25万名用户的数据集。我们研究了用户在Zooniverse论坛中的参与程度，以及他们对完成科学（微）任务的贡献。由于Zooniverse是众多项目的所在地，我们也对跨项目效应的出现感兴趣，并确定了这些项目特征，最重要的是项目的主题领域和持续时间。我们还研究了专家术语的采用，表明这种现象取决于项目所涉及的科学领域，但也受到社区实际使用通信功能的影响。这是在这一日益重要的在线社区中进行的第一次此类研究，其见解将为Zooniverse平台以及整个公民科学系统的设计和进一步开发提供信息。
We conducted a quantitative analysis of ten citizen science projects hosted on the Zooniverse platform, using a data set of over 50 million activity records and more than 250,000 users, collected between December 2010 and July 2013. We examined the level of participation of users in Zooniverse discussion forums in relation to their contributions toward the completion of scientific (micro-)tasks. As Zooniverse is home to a multitude of projects, we were also interested in the emergence of cross-projects effects, and identified those project characteristics, most importantly the subject domain and the duration of a project. We also looked into the adoption of expert terminology, showing that this phenomenon is dependent on the scientific domain which a project addresses but also affected by how the communication features are actually used by a community. This is the first study of this kind in this increasingly important class of online community, and its insights will inform the design and further development of the Zooniverse platform, and of citizen science systems as a whole.