Exploring asymmetric collaboration in social news curation

摘要

We report on the second design cycle of Acropolis, a social computing platform that allows citizens to build and share their own narratives about long-running news stories. A key goal of this research project is to explore the following design opportunity: how can we re-design news stories in order to engage citizens in their reading and curation? In this paper, we describe an asymmetric collaboration approach to engage the crowd of citizens in social news curation. We conclude with the description of a quantitative evaluation conducted during the second design cycle that yielded very encouraging results.