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Crowd design from tools for empowerment to platform capitalism / Florian Alexander Schmidt.
| Author/creator | Schmidt, Florian A. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Basel : Birkhäuser, 2017. |
| Description | 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Board of international research in design |
| Abstract | "The digital revolution is interwoven with the promise to empower the user. Yet, the rise of centralized, commercial platforms for crowdsourced work questions the validity of this narrative. In Crowd-Design, Florian Alexander Schmidt analyses the workings and the rhetoric of crowdsourced work platforms by comparing the way they address the masses today with historic notions of the crowd. The utopian concepts of early online collaboration are taken as a vantage point from which to view and critique current and, at times, dystopian applications of crowdsourced work. The study is focused on the crowdsourcing of design tasks, but these specific applications are used to examine the design of the more general mechanisms employed by the platform providers to motivate and control the crowds. Crowd-Design is as much about the crowdsourcing of design as it is about the design of crowdsourcing"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Based on author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Royal College of Art, London, 2015. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254) |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017035724 |
| ISBN | 9783035611984 (hardback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |