WeDo: End-To-End Computer Supported Collective Action
- Haoqi Zhang ,
- Andrés Monroy-Hernández ,
- Aaron Shaw ,
- Sean A. Munson ,
- Elizabeth Gerber ,
- Benjamin Mako Hill ,
- Peter Kinnaird ,
- Shelly D. Farnham ,
- Patrick Minder ,
- Shelly D. Farnham, Ph.D.
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Published by AAAI
Many celebrate the Internet’s ability to connect individuals and facilitate collective action toward a common goal. While numerous systems have been designed to support particular
aspects of collective action, few systems support participatory, end-to-end collective action in which a crowd or community identifies opportunities, formulates goals, brainstorms
ideas and develops plans, mobilizes, and takes action. To explore the possibilities and barriers in supporting such interactions, we introduce WeDo, a system aimed at promoting simple forms of participatory, end-to-end collective action. Pilot deployments of WeDo illustrate that sociotechnical systems can support automated transitions through different phases of end-to-end collective action, but that challenges, such as the elicitation of leadership and the accommodation of existing group norms, remain.