Brokers or Bridges? Exploring Structural Holes in a Crowdsourcing System

Qingpeng Zhang; Daniel Dajun Zeng; Fei Yue Wang; Ronald Breiger; James A. Hendler

doi:10.1109/MC.2016.166

Brokers or Bridges? Exploring Structural Holes in a Crowdsourcing System

Qingpeng Zhang, Daniel Dajun Zeng, Fei Yue Wang, Ronald Breiger, James A. Hendler

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A method to measure the contributions of crowdsourcing participants identifies how roles relate to an incident's investigation and discussion. Using data on the South China tiger incident, the authors evaluate the performance of brokers-those who connect separate groups within a platform and across platforms-and show how results compare with structural hole theory. The supplemental material at http://personal.cityu.edu.hk/~qingzhang4/hfs-computer2016/Supplement.pdf includes additional information about source data.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	56-64
Number of pages	9
Volume	49
No	6
Specialist publication	Computer
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2016.166
State	Published - Jun 2016

Keywords

Brokers
Collaborative systems
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing Systems
Internet/Web technologies
Social computing
Social networking
Social-network analysis
Structural hole theory

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General Computer Science

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