TY - GEN
T1 - Geographic biases are 'born, not made'
T2 - 2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork, GROUP 2018
AU - Thebault-Spieker, Jacob
AU - Hecht, Brent
AU - Terveen, Loren
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2018/1/7
Y1 - 2018/1/7
N2 - The evolution of contributor behavior in peer production communities over time has been a subject of substantial interest in the social computing community. In this paper, we extend this literature to the geographic domain, exploring contribution behavior in OpenStreetMap using a spatiotemporal lens. In doing so, we observe a geographic version of a “born, not made” phenomenon: throughout their lifespans, contributors are relatively consistent in the places and types of places that they edit. We show how these “born, not made” trends may help explain the urban and socioeconomic coverage biases that have been observed in OpenStreetMap. We also discuss how our findings can help point towards solutions to these biases.
AB - The evolution of contributor behavior in peer production communities over time has been a subject of substantial interest in the social computing community. In this paper, we extend this literature to the geographic domain, exploring contribution behavior in OpenStreetMap using a spatiotemporal lens. In doing so, we observe a geographic version of a “born, not made” phenomenon: throughout their lifespans, contributors are relatively consistent in the places and types of places that they edit. We show how these “born, not made” trends may help explain the urban and socioeconomic coverage biases that have been observed in OpenStreetMap. We also discuss how our findings can help point towards solutions to these biases.
KW - Coverage biases
KW - Geographic human-computer interaction
KW - OpenStreetMap
KW - Peer production
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U2 - 10.1145/3148330.3148350
DO - 10.1145/3148330.3148350
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85046967904
SN - 9781450355629
T3 - Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work
SP - 71
EP - 82
BT - GROUP 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 7 January 2018 through 10 January 2018
ER -