Collaboration as Commodity: What does CSCW have to offer?
| dc.contributor.author | Farshchian, Babak A. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-04-23T20:35:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-04-23T20:35:28Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | CSCW as a research field has contributed to the development of digital tools and platforms to support collaboration. Historically, detailed studies of collaboration have played a central role in the development of theories in CSCW. Parties to collaboration have been the main actors, engaged in synchronous or asynchronous, co-located or distant collaboration. CSCW has often considered the platform, i.e., the place where data about collaboration is stored, as a neutral actor without own agency or agenda. This picture has however changed drastically with the recent emergence of digital labor platforms and data- driven business models. Digital labor platforms move the focus from collaborating actors to platform owners, from supporting collaboration to trading collaboration as commodity. In this paper, I attempt to describe this development from a CSCW perspective. I propose a way to re-frame existing knowledge to fit into the new paradigm of collaboration as commodity. I propose to use research from neighboring fields such as information systems to increase our impact as CSCW researchers. Finally, I discuss several research questions for CSCW. This is work in progress. | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.18420/ecscw2019_ep09 | |
| dc.identifier.pissn | 2510-2591 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Proceedings of 17th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Reports of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies: vol. 3, no. 1 | |
| dc.title | Collaboration as Commodity: What does CSCW have to offer? | en |
| dc.type | Text/Conference Paper | |
| gi.conference.date | 8 - 12 June 2019 | |
| gi.conference.location | Salzburg, Austria | |
| mci.conference.review | full |
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