Dear MCGers,
as some of you may know I've been researching crowdsourcing and public
participation in digital history as part of my PhD research into the impact
of digital technologies on historians. I'm almost at the end (hoorah!) and
this survey will help me make sure I haven't missed any important projects
in my review of the field, and will also help me understand how people move
from being 'crowdsourcers' to 'citizen historians' or 'citizen scientists':
http://bit.ly/partichist
About the survey:
The purpose of this survey is to gather data about crowdsourcing or
participatory history projects. This part of my PhD research, which is
asking 'How do academic and family/local historians evaluate, use and
contribute to crowdsourced resources, particularly geo-located historical
materials?'.
The survey is in three parts; all but the first parts are optional. Your
answers will help me:
* ensure that my coverage of projects is comprehensive (3 short questions)
* learn more about how crowdsourcing participants learn new skills or get
interested in a discipline like history or science (2 questions)
* understand more about the challenges of creating effective crowdsourcing
and participatory projects in digital history (3 questions)
The three 'required' questions are easy and take about a minute to answer.
Some of the questions generally need more thought so the time to complete
them is up to you. You can find out more about my PhD research project at
http://www.miaridge.com/my-phd-research/ and you can contact me via
http://www.miaridge.com/contact/ or @mia_out. If you have any additional
queries, you can contact my supervisors, Dr Elton Barker or Dr Deborah
Brunton at The Open University.
Please note that by taking part in this survey, you are consenting to my
holding and analysing the information you provide for use in my PhD thesis
and/or any subsequent publications or presentations.
This survey closes on June 20, 2014.
You can take the survey at
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17Z1NlFBZ6rFFvZHdTr5YsyE-oe-zfkORq2XgdVacGV0/viewform
(shortlink: http://bit.ly/partichist )
Please feel free to pass this message onto other lists or directly to
people involved with projects. If you have any questions or comments, just
drop me a line.
Cheers, Mia
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http://openobjects.org.uk/
http://twitter.com/mia_out
I mostly use this address for list mail; my open.ac.uk address is checked
daily
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