Mario Chavez wrote:
Michael Harris wrote:
but sorry, I am a bit lost with this one.
Crowdsourcing has to do with sharing with other people? Or am I on the wrong line?
Michael, crowdsourcing is, as the Silicon Valley gurus put it, part of the on-demand or gig economy. According to their marketing, crowdsourcing is labor distribution for best efficiencies.
In reality, it's more like work distribution for little or no money, which redounds in lower costs (labor and production costs) for the initiator, the entrepreneur, etc.
Facebook was a big crowdsourcing proponent (I don't know if it still is). Wikipedia is an egregious example: it crowdsources the writing, editing and translation (and review) of most of its articles to specialists. Wikipedia does not pay those writers, editors and translators a thing.
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