TY - GEN
T1 - Planet hunters and seafloor explorers
T2 - 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2014
AU - Mugar, Gabriel
AU - Østerlund, Carsten
AU - Hassman, Katie Devries
AU - Crowston, Kevin
AU - Jackson, Corey Brian
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Citizen science
KW - Legitimate peripheral participation
KW - Situated learning
KW - Social translucence
KW - Socialization
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U2 - 10.1145/2531602.2531721
DO - 10.1145/2531602.2531721
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84898956478
SN - 9781450325400
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 109
EP - 119
BT - CSCW 2014 - Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 15 February 2014 through 19 February 2014
ER -