Editorial

摘要

What is now called crowdsourcing - the involvement of the general public in undertaking tasks with multiple granularities in the form of an open call - has a long history. It is important to note that the difference between the traditional mass collaboration projects and the modern phenomenon of crowdsourcing proposed by Howe (2006) is the use of the Internet and various online computer-mediated communication platforms to distribute tasks among large numbers of individuals and interest groups (Terras, 2016). To date, many crowdsourcing projects have been conducted in the business domain, which facilitates the idea of open innovation and leverage the wisdom of crowds to solve real-world problems (Zhao and Zhu, 2014).