Investigating social curation websites: A crowd computing perspective

Author

Padoa, Carlos ; Schneider, Daniel ; Moreira de Souza, Jano ; Palma J. Medeiros, Sergio

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Eng., Fed. Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

fYear

2015

fDate

6-8 May 2015

Firstpage

253

Lastpage

258

Abstract

This paper analyzes five social curation tools, chosen for having a relevant number of users and for being subject of other academic studies. Based on existing literature, the concepts of curation, digital curation, and social curation are discussed. Three main research questions are the objective of the research: how `social´ are the studied tools, if they are adequate to crowd work, and how good they are as search engines. It is concluded that in the current state of affairs, these tools are quite social as social media sites, but little social as social curation sites; that they are not adequate to crowd work. It is observed, however, that these tools use the wisdom of the crowds to filter the vast web content, and that they may be seen as crowd computing tools.

Keywords

Internet; outsourcing; search engines; social aspects of automation; social networking (online); Web content; crowd computing perspective; crowd computing tools; digital curation; search engines; social curation Websites; social curation tools; social media sites; Engines; Internet; Navigation; Diigo; Pearltrees; Pinterest; Scoop.it; Storify; crowd computing; crowdsourcing; social curation; wisdom of the crowds;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD), 2015 IEEE 19th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Calabria

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2001-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSCWD.2015.7230967

Filename

7230967