research-article

Exploring the character of participation in social media: the case of Google Image Labeler

Author:

Nassim JafarinaimiAuthors Info & Claims

iConference '12: Proceedings of the 2012 iConference

Pages 72 - 79

https://doi.org/10.1145/2132176.2132186

Published: 07 February 2012 Publication History

Abstract

Social media are transforming interpersonal and social interactions, enabling new forms of engagement and participation. However, we know little about how the specific design qualities of social media affect social interaction in these environments. Considering the diversity of social media today, there is a need to engage with specific cases to discern possible patterns of relationship between designed characteristics of social media and the character of participation in them. To illustrate, this paper draws on a case study of the game, "Google Image Labeler." The design of the game is studied through a close reading of arguments made by its designers followed by an Internet study of what users and critics say about their interactions with the game. These studies, in conjunction with theories of social interaction by John Dewey and Robert Putnam, provide a foundation for a critical stance toward the quality of participation in this game that informs design theory and practice.

References

[1]

Google. Available at http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/.

[2]

Open Mind Initiative. Available at http://www.openmind.org/.

[3]

Bogost, I., Persuasive Games: Exploitationware, May 2011. Available at http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6366/persuasive_games_exploitationware.phpv.

[4]

Charmaz, K. Constructing grounded theory. Sage Publications, London, 2006.

[5]

Clifford, J. and Marcus, G. E. Writing culture: the poetics and politics of ethnography. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1986.

[6]

Dewey, J. Democracy and education: an introduction to the philosophy of education. Cosimo Classics, New York, 2005.

[7]

Ducheneaut, N., Yee, N., Nickell, E. and Moore, R. J. 2006. "Alone together?" exploring the social dynamics of massively multiplayer online games. In CHI '06: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems (May, 2006).

Digital Library

[8]

Geertz, C. After the fact: two countries, four decades, one anthropologist. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1995.

[9]

Glaser, B. and Strauss, A. The discovery of grounded theory; strategies for qualitative research. Aldine Publishing Co., Chicago, 1967.

[10]

Goh, D. H-L, Ang, R. P., Chua, A. Y. K. and Lee, C. S. 2010. Evaluating game genres for tagging images. In Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries (Reykjavik, Iceland, 2010).

Digital Library

[11]

Grint, K. and Woolgar, S. The machine at work: technology, work, and organization. Polity Press, Cambridge, UK, Blackwell Publishers, 1997.

[12]

Howe, J. Crowdsourcing: why the power of the crowd is driving the future of business. Crown Business, New York, 2008.

Digital Library

[13]

Putnam, R. D. Bowling alone: the collapse and revival of American community. Simon & Schuster, New York, 2000.

[14]

Rheingold, H. The virtual community: homesteading on the electronic frontier. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000.

Digital Library

[15]

Robertson, S., Vojnovic, M. and Weber, I. 2009. Rethinking the ESP game. In Proceedings of the 27th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems (Boston, MA, USA, 2009).

Digital Library

[16]

Shirky, C. Here comes everybody: the power of organizing without organizations. Penguin Press, New York, 2008.

[17]

Song, F. W. Virtual communities: bowling alone, online together. Peter Lang, New York, 2009.

[18]

Surowiecki, J. The wisdom of crowds: why the many are smarter than the few and how collective wisdom shapes business, economies, societies, and nations. Doubleday, New York, 2004.

Digital Library

[19]

Turner, F. From counterculture to cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006.

Digital Library

[20]

Van Maanen, J. Tales of the field: on writing ethnography. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1988.

[21]

von Ahn, L. Human computation. 2009. In 46th Annual Design Automation Conference (San Francisco, California, 2009).

[22]

von Ahn, L. and Dabbish, L. 2004. Labeling images with a computer game. In ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (Vienna, Austria, 2004).

Digital Library

[23]

von Ahn, L. and Dabbish, L. 2008. Designing games with a purpose. Commun. ACM, 51, 8 (2008), 58--67.

Digital Library

[24]

Woolgar, S. Configuring the User: the case of usability trials. In J. Law, A Sociology of Monsters, Routledge, London, 1991, 57--102.

[25]

Zittrain, J. The future of the Internet and how to stop it. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2008.

Digital Library

[26]

Zittrain, J., Minds for Sale., March 2010. Available at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/02/zittrain.

Cited By

Das DBhattacharyya MGaytan-Lugo LAlabdulqader EAhmed N(2022)Note: Importance of Digital Profile Pictures on Social Media Perceived by Different GroupsProceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies10.1145/3530190.3534853(545-555)Online publication date: 29-Jun-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3530190.3534853
Macakoğlu ŞAlakuş Çınar BPeker S(2022)Kiyaslio: a gamified mobile crowdsourcing application for tracking price dispersion in the grocery retail marketInternational Journal of Web Information Systems10.1108/IJWIS-09-2021-008918:1(55-75)Online publication date: 24-Jan-2022
https://doi.org/10.1108/IJWIS-09-2021-0089
Trimponias GMa XYang Q(2019)Rating Worker Skills and Task Strains in Collaborative Crowd Computing: A Competitive PerspectiveThe World Wide Web Conference10.1145/3308558.3313569(1853-1863)Online publication date: 13-May-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3308558.3313569
Show More Cited By

Recommendations

Social media and political participation: are facebook, twitter and YouTube democratizing our political systems?
ePart'11: Proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 8.5 international conference on Electronic participation

This paper presents the results of a literature review in regard to Social Media and participation. Besides that, to understand the meaning and impact of Social Media on elections, we show field results from the 2010 and 2011 elections in the ...
Social media engagement

This study unearths the motives for YouTube user engagement that has been conceptualized as active participation and passive content consumption. In light of the Uses and Gratifications framework, a sample of 1143 registered YouTube users completed ...
Social media and online political participation

Blog use and SNS use are positively related to online political participation.Like-minded exposure mediates the relationship between blog use and political participation.Cross-cutting exposure mediates the relationship between SNS use and political ...

Comments

Please enable JavaScript to view thecomments powered by Disqus.

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Other conferences

iConference '12: Proceedings of the 2012 iConference

February 2012

667 pages

ISBN:9781450307826

DOI:10.1145/2132176

Conference Chair:
Jens-Erik Mai
University of Toronto

Copyright © 2012 ACM.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 07 February 2012

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Research-article

Conference

iConference '12

iConference '12: iConference 2012

February 7 - 10, 2012

Ontario, Toronto, Canada

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

9
Total Citations
View Citations
354
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)10
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)1

Reflects downloads up to 15 Feb 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Das DBhattacharyya MGaytan-Lugo LAlabdulqader EAhmed N(2022)Note: Importance of Digital Profile Pictures on Social Media Perceived by Different GroupsProceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies10.1145/3530190.3534853(545-555)Online publication date: 29-Jun-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3530190.3534853
Macakoğlu ŞAlakuş Çınar BPeker S(2022)Kiyaslio: a gamified mobile crowdsourcing application for tracking price dispersion in the grocery retail marketInternational Journal of Web Information Systems10.1108/IJWIS-09-2021-008918:1(55-75)Online publication date: 24-Jan-2022
https://doi.org/10.1108/IJWIS-09-2021-0089
Trimponias GMa XYang Q(2019)Rating Worker Skills and Task Strains in Collaborative Crowd Computing: A Competitive PerspectiveThe World Wide Web Conference10.1145/3308558.3313569(1853-1863)Online publication date: 13-May-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3308558.3313569
Dam Christensen H(2017)The Art of Copying: Five strategies for Transforming Originals in the Art MuseumCulture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1791859:1(85-107)Online publication date: 4-Sep-2017
https://doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.179185
Huvila I(2015)The unbearable lightness of participating? Revisiting the discourses of “participation” in archival literatureJournal of Documentation10.1108/JD-01-2014-001271:2(358-386)Online publication date: 9-Mar-2015
https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-01-2014-0012
JafariNaimi N(2015) MR x as a participatory platform Digital Creativity10.1080/14626268.2015.110012226:3-4(207-220)Online publication date: 8-Dec-2015
https://doi.org/10.1080/14626268.2015.1100122
Prestopnik NTang J(2015)Points, stories, worlds, and diegesisComputers in Human Behavior10.1016/j.chb.2015.05.05152:C(492-506)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.chb.2015.05.051
Prestopnik NCrowston KFinholt TTellioğlu HInkpen KGross T(2012)Purposeful gaming & socio-computational systemsProceedings of the 2012 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work10.1145/2389176.2389188(75-84)Online publication date: 27-Oct-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2389176.2389188
Zittrain J(undefined)Ubiquitous Human ComputingSSRN Electronic Journal10.2139/ssrn.1140445
https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1140445

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Figures

Tables

Media

View Table of Conten