Results of a Collective Awareness Platforms Investigation

TL;DR

This paper investigates Collective Awareness Platforms (CAPs) by analyzing online documents to understand their status, scope, user types, motivations, and payoffs, aiming to develop a more accurate model of CAPs.

Contribution

It provides an initial analysis of CAPs based on internet data and applies models of virtual communities and collective intelligence to active platforms.

Findings

Identified the status and scope of various CAPs

Classified user types and motivations within CAPs

Developed a refined model of CAPs based on active platforms

Abstract

In this paper we provide two introductory analyses of CAPs, based exclusively on the analysis of documents found on the Internet. The first analysis allowed us to investigate the world of CAPs, in particular for what concerned their status (dead or alive), the scope of those platforms and the typology of users. In order to develop a more accurate model of CAPs, and to understand more deeply the motivation of the users and the type of expected payoff, we analysed those CAPs from the above list that are still alive and we used two models developed for what concerned the virtual community and the collective intelligence.