Out of control: the new biology of machines, social systems, and the economic world
Out of control: the new biology of machines, social systems, and the economic world
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
The Wisdom of Crowds
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
New learning network paradigms: Communities of objectives, crowdsourcing, wikis and open source
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
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In this paper, we introduce a new kind of scientific collaboration type (open research swarm) and describe a realization (Tutkimusparvi) of this new type of scientific social network. Swarming is an experiment in self-organizing and a novel way to collaborate in the field of academic research. Open research swarms utilize the possibilities of Internet, especially the social media tools that are now available because of the web 2.0 boom. The main goal is to collectively attain rapid solutions to given challenges and to develop a distributed intellectual milieu for researchers. Transparency of the research and creative collaboration are central ideas behind open research swarms. Like Wikipedia, open research swarm is open for everyone to participate. The questions and research topics can come from open research swarm participants, from a purposed principal or from general discussions on the mass media.