1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910537526003321

Autore

Schmidt Florian A.

Titolo

Crowd design : from tools for empowerment to platform capitalism / / Florian Alexander Schmidt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland : , : Birkhäuser, , 2017

ISBN

3-0356-1051-7

3-0356-1067-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Board of international research in design

Classificazione

DES000000DES007000

Disciplina

658.402202854678

Soggetti

Virtual work teams

Groupware (Computer software)

Work design

Human computation

DESIGN / General

DESIGN / Graphic Arts / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Royal College of Art, London, 2015.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-254).

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword BIRD -- About the Book -- Introduction: Coming to Terms with Crowdsourcing -- Chapter One: The Reinvention of the Crowd -- Chapter Two: Early Concepts of Online Collaboration -- Chapter Three: The Design of Crowdsourcing -- Chapter Four: The Crowdsourcing of Design -- Conclusion: Towards an Ethics of Creative Crowdwork -- The Author -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Die digitale Revolution ist mit dem Versprechen verknüpft, die Selbstständigkeit des einzelnen Nutzers zu stärken. Der Aufstieg von kommerziellen Plattformen zur Koordination von Crowdarbeit stellt die Gültigkeit dieses Narrativs jedoch in Frage. In Crowd-Design analysiert Florian Alexander Schmidt die Entstehungsgeschichte, Funktionsweise und Rhetorik solcher Plattformen. Der Vergleich von historischen Crowd-Diskursen und Visionen der Online-Kollaboration bildet den Ausgangspunkt für eine kritische Betrachtung aktueller Ausprägungen von Crowdarbeit: Der Fokus der Studie liegt auf der Auslagerung von Designaufgaben unter Verwendung dieser Crowdsourcing-Plattformen.



Grundlegenden Mechanismen, welche den Plattformbetreibern zur Motivation und Kontrolle der Crowds dienen, werden offengelegt.

The digital revolution is interwoven with the promise to empower the user. Yet, the rise of centralised, 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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966474403321

Autore

Gülzow Insa <1967->

Titolo

The acquisition of intensifiers : emphatic reflexives in English and German child language / / by Insa Gulzow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2006

ISBN

9786612194023

9781282194021

128219402X

9783110197655

3110197650

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 279 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies on language acquisition, , 1861-4248 ; ; 22

Classificazione

ER 920

Disciplina

435/.6

Soggetti

German language - Reflexives

English language - Reflexives

German language - Acquisition

English language - Acquisition

German language - Grammar, Comparative - English

English language - Grammar, Comparative - German

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-274) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Intensifiers and agent-sensitive expressions -- Chapter 2 The expression x-self in acquisition studies -- Chapter 3 Intensifiers in German and English production data -- Back matter

Sommario/riassunto

Insa Gülzow analyzes the acquisition of intensifiers by children acquiring German or English as their first language. Based on a comparative analysis of intensifiers and related expressions in the two languages, she examines the longitudinal production data of six German-speaking and six English-speaking children with regard to when and in which contexts the intensifiers German selbst/selber and English x-self (myself, yourself, himself, etc.) appear. As intensifiers evoke alternatives to the referent of their focus and relate a central referent to more peripheral alternative referents, they are an important linguistic means to structure the participants of a child's early discourse. By integrating intensifiers into their utterances, children can identify themselves as central. The notion of being included or excluded in a certain state of affairs is relevant for children when interacting with their parents and/or other children. In the course of development, children acquire a number of both linguistic and non-linguistic skills that characterize them as increasingly independent and competent agents. In this process, intensifiers are an important linguistic device with which children can negotiate and comment on their participation in a given event. The three parts of the volume consist first, of a detailed analysis of the intensifiers selbst/selber and x-self and related expressions such as allein and by x-self in the two languages. Special attention is given to the fact that in English, intensifiers and reflexive pronouns are identical expressions while in German they are distinct. Second, previous results of comprehension studies are carefully reviewed in order to relate them to the findings in longitudinal production data. Third, a detailed analysis of the children's early use of intensifiers and related expressions is presented.