Workers in India program software applications, transcribe medical dictation online, chase credit card debtors, and sell mobile phones, diet pills, and mortgages for companies based in other countries around the world. While their skills and labour migrate abroad, these workers …
Workers in India program software applications, transcribe medical dictation online, chase credit card debtors, and sell mobile phones, diet pills, and mortgages for companies based in other countries around the world. While their skills and labor migrate abroad, these workers r…
A very creative study of the different kinds of task-integration, and management, found in virtual migration and body-shopping throughout the global software industry in general and between India and the US in particular.
Examines the emerging "trans-national virtual space", where labour and vast quantities of code and data cross national boundaries, but the workers themselves do not. Through an analysis of the work of computer programmers in India working for the U.S. software industry, the auth…
An in-depth analysis of the rapidly growing phenomenon of crowdsourcing reflects on the dramatic economic, cultural, business, and political implications of applying the open-source idea to a variety of fields outside of software development and addresses the unique opportunitie…
'Crowdsourcing' describes the process by which the power of the many can be harnessed together on the Internet to build and to innovate. Jeff Howe shows how this has become possible - how complex social, technological and economic developments have fused together to make crowdso…
How were a bunch of part-time dabblers in finance able to help an investment company consistently beat the market? The answer is that they all draw on the power of Crowdsourcing. This book shows how complex social, technological and economic developments have fused together to m…