The crowdsourced archiving that occurred in the wake of the January 6 th US Capitol insurrection exemplifies the potential for agile, collaborative evidence gathering during a crisis situation. This paper studies the r/DataHoarders subcommunity of Reddit and the collective and s…
Human annotators are critical for creating the necessary datasets to train statistical learners, but annotation cost and limited access to qualified annotators forms a data bottleneck. In recent years, researchers have investigated overcoming this obstacle using crowdsourcing, w…
With the increasing popularity of microblogging services like Twitter, researchers discovered a rich medium for tackling real-life problems like event detection. However, event detection in Twitter is often obstructed by the lack of public evaluation mechanisms such as test coll…
The built environment is the conduit that people utilize to access services, employment, and community engagement. To ensure accessibility in a community for people with disabilities, it is important to look at the physical aspects of the built environment. Barriers in the physi…
In this dissertation, I study the decision-making process of participants on online platforms. I specifically focus my attention on the sequential aspects of such processes, i.e. my interest is in understanding the endogenous determinants of the decision-making processes in the …
Research Focus. The purpose of this study is to examine the moderating role that the respective workforce generational cohorts may have on the relationship between positive practices in organizations and levels of employee engagement of U.S. based adult customer service represen…
Historic open data can be an asset to community gardens in land use disputes, the preservation and sharing of cultural traditions, and adaptation to climate change. Yet scholarship has not yet provided an accessible guide to the many issues of labor and technology involved in pr…