Given enough eyeballs, all crimes are shallow: the organizing of citizen collaboration to solve an online detective story

• Bjorn Remneland Wikhamn ^[1] ; Jan Ljungberg ^[1] ; Bertil Rolandsson ^[1] ; Magnus Bergquist ^[2]
  1. [1] University of Gothenburg

     University of Gothenburg

     Suecia

     
  2. [2] Halmstad University

     Halmstad University

     Suecia

     
• Localización: Journal of Technology Management & Innovation, ISSN-e 0718-2724, Vol. 14, Nº. 2, 2019, págs. 59-68
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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.