crowdsourcing, flashmobs & crowdfunding [is52026b social computing - week 8]

8/3/2019 Crowdsourcing, Flashmobs & Crowdfunding [IS52026B Social computing - week 8]

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IS52026 Social ComputingWeek 8: crowdsourcing, flashmobs and crowdfunding

dan mcquillan

http://grassrootsmapping.org/2010/01/grassroots-mapping-with-the-shipibo-in-the-center-of-lima/



credit: Renesys

http://thenextweb.com/media/2011/02/01/incredible- watch-volunteers-translate-egyptian-phone-messages-into-tweets/

SHOW Higher res version: Volunteers translateEgyptian protesters' phone messages intotweetshttp://vimeo.com/19421428 (HD versionhttp://vimeo.com/19416088) from 03:20

“As of 9:50pm PDT on January 31, the volunteertranslators had already more or less completed thetranslation of nearly 200 phone messages. All ofthat work was done in roughly five hours –amazing.”

immediacy. Free. Context.



458,832 pages of documents.

Your workers are unpaid, so make it fun. Mugshots.Leaderboard.

Speed is mandatory, so use a framework. Django.Thanks to EC2, Willison guessed the Guardian’s full out-of-

pocket cost for the whole project will be around £50.

SHOW http://mps-expenses.guardian.co.uk/page/10005/

SHOW http://mps-expenses2.guardian.co.uk/labour/jack-straw/

scale.

RT @wikileaks Crowdsource the Spy Files! Tag discoveriesyour country/phone/computer/etc with #wlfindhttp://wikileaks.org/the-spyfiles.html



http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jan/28/iran-dead-detained-protests-elections-spreadsheet

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/06/27/iranian-officials-crowd-source-protester-identities-online/



by Power to the People

2005 The 'net made flesh? http://www.alternet.org/story/26807?page=entire

'Bill' - And they should be absurd or funny, they shouldn't be explicitlypolitical." But then, people still saw the absurd things as beingpolitical...

One thing a lot of people really liked was the fact that the mobs weregenerally taking place in some kind of commercial space. People

wanted the mob to be disruptive.Was that the first inkling of politicizing it -- a sort of anticonsumerism?I think that was part of it. Commercial space is quasi-public space.

You're welcome to come in so long as you are considering buyingsomething.

So if you do something crazy ...Once you try to express yourself in a way that indicates that you're not

interested in buying anything, you're suddenly a trespasser. And so, when you think in those terms, the idea that all these people whoseem to be shoppers show up at a Toys 'R' Us and do somethingcompletely out of their minds …

toys'r'us flashmob1st amendment flashmobbut then T-mobile



Teeme araThere was more than 10 000 tons of illegal waste

lying around in Estonian nature. In october 2007, asa group of active citizens, we realised thatsomething drastic needs to be done. We developeda special software and geomapped more than 10000 dumping sites all over the country. And on 3rdof May 2008, engaging hundreds of organisations

and more than 50 000 volunteers, we cleaned it allup in just 5 hours!

http://www.teeme2008.ee/?setlang=engSHOW http://www.youtube.com/watch?

feature=player_embedded&list=PLCE64BAFE6D704287&v=LupKihuu0Cw#!



AustinBloodDriveTweetuptwitter = san fransisco coffee dates?SHOW http://vimeo.com/1530230 01:25 esp 02:00



Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) by urbanfarmcat

Sustainable → more people. Teach / share skills fornext generation.

00:50 to 1:15 good run down of the 'just do it' digitalculture ethos

SHOW Crop Mob http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rPBbtgnWbo



Remember copyright versus the Commonsslide of the Diggers

The web’s potential for good stems from the open,collaborative and even communal culture it inherited

where it started in academiaand the counter culture of the 1960s, combined with

pre-industrial ingredients it

has resurrected, folk culture and the commons as ashared basis for productive

endeavour.Leadbeater, Charles. We-think: Mass innovation, not

mass production: The Power of Mass Creativity.Illustrated edition. Profile Books, 2008.



“There is no cause for alarm”

geiger counterscreative commons data

These are crowd-source readings from numerousgeiger counters hooked up to the Internet. The folksat Pachube have aggregated these readings and

made them available for people to play with. Thereadings come from sources such as local councils,motivated individuals and official readings fromJapan’s Ministry

internet of things

also crowd funding!



The Age of Stupid is perhaps the most publicized andsuccessful case to-date; this film raised $1.2 millionvia crowd funding, and also used crowdsourcing todistribute and exhibit it around the world.

. The Age of Stupid raised £900,000 from over 600investors.



New Backers by Monthhttp://www.kickstarter.com/blog/one-million-backers

http://www.kickstarter.com/

http://www.shareable.net/blog/crowdfunding-nation-the-rise-and-evolution-of-collaborative-funding

Yancey Strickler, one of Kickstarter’s founders, had his ownreservations before starting the company, noting in a NewYork Times interview that his initial response to co-founder Perry Chen was, “I’m not so sure about this...If

you let people vote for what they want — that’s ‘AmericanIdol,’ that doesn’t produce great art.”

By turning collaborative funding into a high-stakes game,Kickstarter demands a certain level of quality from itscreators, encourages that they work to promote it, andgives backers confidence that they’ll only pay for projectsthat achieve a critical mass of support.



http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/10000-successful-projects

Funding projects is habitual, according to Kickstarter’s figures. Out

of 1,013,725 total backers, 166,823 have funded two or moreprojects, 66,676 have backed three or more, and 23,601 havebacked five or more.

Kickstarter pledges are not donations, as most of the contributionsare associated with tangible rewards, nor are they a form ofmicro-venture capital, as funders retain no equity in the fundedproject. While crowdfunding need not limited in topic, Kickstarter

is focused almost exclusively on funding creative and communityfocused projects.“/book: CollaborativeFutures”, n.d.

http://www.booki.cc/collaborativefutures/.

The sheer breadth of successful campaigns launched in the pastyear are impressive, including feature films, web series,musicians releasing records, web startups, gadget accessories,art projects, homebrew video games, urban farms, journalism,

open-source projects, road trips, social activism, smallbusinesses, even documentaries about the sharing economy



http://publiclaboratory.org/tool/balloon-mapping inc images

January 2010, Jeff Warren worked with a series oforganizations and communities to produce maps withchildren and adults from several communities in Lima,including the Cantagallo settlement of Shipibo on thebank of the Rimac and the Juan Pablo II community inVilla El Salvador.

Seeking to invert the traditional power structure ofcartography, the grassroots mappers used heliumballoons and kites to loft their own "community satellites"made with inexpensive digital cameras. The resultingimages, which are owned by the residents, aregeoreferenced and stitched into maps which are 100xhigher resolution that those offered by Google, atextremely low cost. In some cases these maps may beused to support residents' claims to land title.



By GonzoEarth

C.F. MAP KIBERA

Since May 2010, we have been working with New Orleans-based Louisiana Bucket Brigade to get Gulf Coastresidents out on boats and along beaches to producehigh-resolution aerial imagery of the spill’s effects. All theimagery from this project is being released into the publicdomain

http://grassrootsmapping.org/about/

SHOW Grassroots Mapping the Gulf oil spill with balloonsand kites http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iseigOBm4k4

EXERCISE: OTHER APPLICATIONS OF BALLOONMAPPING?

Camera hackSHOWhttp://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK_for_Dummies

crowdsourcing, flashmobs & crowdfunding [is52026b social computing - week 8]

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