[Sociam-soton] Re: Another use of the Web, and the formation of a new Social Machine!

[Brown I.C.]

this certainly goes some way to addressing the question of whether participants in social machines of his kind are ever actually "doing science".

Whilst you might say the participants here are at the same level as in other social machines, the person creating the trial and defining the question here would certainly be seen to be "doing science" in my view (good or bad science perhaps based on the question and what was done with the results etc) but science nonetheless

Ian

On 24 Jun 2013, at 09:06, Ramine Tinati wrote:

Check out Randomise Me: http://randomiseme.org

It’s a new form of social machinery, it is offering users to perform their own ‘science’; allowing a user to create a trial, and then invite participants to join in and help prove/disprove it.

Although this might be used for trivial things (currently there are trials such as, does eating cheese before bed give you nightmares), this is a great example of crowdsourcing and potentially an free and open data resource of human activity and interest.

If the machine gets more popular, will the type of trials being conducted become more scientific, will the machine have to adapt to this, will the community using it change? Will other social machines emerge from this?

Something to watch out for!

Thanks,
Ramine

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Ian Brown, PhD Candidate
WAIS Research Group, ECS
Doctoral Training Centre
University of Southampton