Given Enough Eyeballs, All Crimes are Shallow - The Organizing of Citizen Collaboration to Solve an Online Detective Story
Björn Remneland Wikhamn, Jan Ljungberg, Bertil Rolandsson, Magnus Bergquist · Journal of technology management & innovation · 2019
This paper theorizes about the organizing of online citizen collaboration.The setting is an Internet forum where people started their own investigations about a crime of animal cruelty.The concepts of commons-based peer production and generativity are utilized to analyse the complex organizing mechanisms of voluntaristic online collaboration in practice.Three general functions are introduced -operational, managerial, and noise -which are intertwined and together make up important basis for organizing generativity.