The technological convergence of mobile “phones” and multimedia has been taking place
since the 1990s, but it was not until the commercial birth of touchscreen-enabled mobile …

Since the establishment of Computer Supported Collaborative Work as a research area,
computer advances have change the paradigm of how technology is applied to improve the …

Time-killing on smartphones has become a pervasive activity, and could be opportune for
delivering content to their users. This research is believed to be the first attempt at time …

While crowd work typically involves tasks that performed at any time and anywhere, some
tasks inherently require the physical presence of workers at a specific time and location. This …

As citizen journalism and social media continue to influence and shape the global media
landscape, and as smartphone technology becomes increasingly prevalent and affordable …

Micro-news are abbreviated summaries or teasers of news content that are often
accompanied with links to longer articles. We investigated motivations and habits of micro …

Since 2011, mobile chat apps have gained significant popularity worldwide and the leading
chat apps have surpassed social networking sites in user numbers. These apps have …

Using a mixed-methods approach over six weeks, we studied 30 smartphone users' task
choices, task execution and effort devoted to two commercial mobile crowdsourcing …

We studied the mobile users' preferences and concerns of using location-based
assignments (LBA) and geotagging in crowdsourced news making. First, nine readers who …

The rise of geotargeted online advertising has disrupted the business model of local
journalism, but it remains ambiguous whether online advertising platforms can effectively …