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Human Computation and Collaboration: Identifying Unique Social Processes in Virtual Contexts

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Continued technological advances have allowed human computation to span geographical, cultural, and temporal boundaries giving rise to technology-mediated collaborations. Yet, there is little consistency across disciplines about the definitions and roles of social processes in technology-mediated collaborations. This chapter highlights the variability in definitions for social processes across disciplines that might be responsible for inconsistent conclusions about technology-mediated collaboration effectiveness. We encourage researchers to critically compare definitions of social process variables across disciplines and to consider using an inductive approach to identify new social processes that might be uniquely adaptive in technology-mediated collaborations.

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Funding for this project was provided by a grant from the National Science Foundation (VOSS-0838492). Findings, conclusions, or recommendations are the author(s) and not those of the National Science Foundation.

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Santuzzi, A.M., Budnick, C.J., Cogburn, D.L. (2013). Human Computation and Collaboration: Identifying Unique Social Processes in Virtual Contexts. In: Michelucci, P. (eds) Handbook of Human Computation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8806-4_57

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