Participatory Sensing, Opinions and Collective Awareness

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Loreto, Vittorio (Editor), Haklay, Muki (Editor), Hotho, Andreas (Editor), Servedio, Vito D.P (Editor), Stumme, Gerd (Editor), Theunis, Jan (Editor), Tria, Francesca (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Understanding Complex Systems,
• Subjects: Physics.; Application software.; Environmental monitoring.; Social policy.; Economic sociology.; Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis.; Social Policy.

This book introduces and reviews recent advances in the field in a comprehensive and non-technical way by focusing on the potential of emerging citizen-science and social-computation frameworks, coupled with the latest theoretical and modeling tools developed by physicists, mathematicians, computer...

Table of Contents:

• Part I New Sensing Technologies for Societies and Environment
• Part II Citizen Science, Participatory Sensing and Social Computation
• Part III Collective Awareness, Learning and Decision Making
• Appendix: Software and Hardware Tools.