Social Media and Crowdsourcing - Application and Analytics

Social media and crowdsourcing are important tools for solving complex problems. The benefit of crowdsourcing is that it leverages the power of human intelligence cost effectively and with less time. Social Media and Crowdsourcing: Application and Analytics examines the concepts of social media and crowdsourcing as well as their analytical aspects. It explores how these technologies contribute to the real world and examines such applications as promoting social good, agriculture, healthcare, tourism, disaster management, education, crime control, and cultural heritage. The book also looks at ethical issues in crowdsourcing and future scenarios and challenges for policy. Highlights of the book include the following:

• A crowdsourcing application in agriculture
• Crowdsourcing outline for a contemporary aided medicinal backup system
• Crowdsourcing-based recommendation in the tourism industry
• Crowdsourcing mechanisms for reviving cultural heritage</