Glossary
- Collective intelligence:
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Shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration, collective efforts, and competition of many individuals and appears in consensus decision making (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_intelligence)
- Crowdsourcing:
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The practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from an online community, rather than from traditional employees or suppliers (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crowdsourcing)
- Human flesh search, HFS:
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Is the phenomenon of distributed researching using Internet media such as blogs, forums, and microblog (Zhang et al. 2012)
- Microblog:
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A broadcast medium that exists in the form of blog, with content that has a typically smaller size
- Social computing, computational social science:
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Computational facilitation of social studies and human social...
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Zhang, Q., DiFranzo, D., Hendler, J.A. (2018). Social Networking on the World Wide Web. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_104
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