POEM PhD Studentship in Information Studies: Users’ motivations for crowdsourcing cultural heritage digital collections

This sub-project (PhD2) will examine the use and the potential of diverse types of crowdsourcing for encouraging participation and co-creation of diverse users in cultural heritage. It seeks to understand what type of engagement with cultural collections crowdsourcing and gamification can support. The project will be testing and evaluating the effectiveness in encouraging user participation and how the user-generated materials can help open up the collections to new audiences and uses. The project creates new knowledge on how professionals frame participation in heritage work and on the organisational changes coming up with these changes.

Start date: 1 October 2018

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