The document discusses wisdom of crowds, crowdsourcing, and relevant concepts from research papers. It asks about the conditions needed for wisdom of crowds to work, defining characteristics and pitfalls of crowdsourcing, major concepts and future directions from crowdsourcing readings, and examples of good research paper models in terms of writing style and identified arguments, gaps, and stepping stones.

1. 1.
What is wisdom of crowds? What kinds of
problems does it work for? What are the conditions for
making it work? How is it different from crowdsourcing?
2.
What are the defining characteristics of
crowdsourcing? From readings and your
experience/opinions, what does it take to make
crowdsourcing work well? What are some pitfalls of
crowdsourcing? How about ethical issues?
3.
What are some major CONCEPTS and research
directions that emerge from ALL the readings on
crowdsourcing? Which ones do you personally find
relevant?
4.
Which paper was a good model for you in terms of
how to write research? Why? What about it? Did you look
for arguments, gaps, and stepping stones?