Conducting Massively Open Online Social Experiments with Volunteer Science

• DOI: 10.1609/hcomp.v2i1.13208
• Publication Date: 2022-10-18T10:19:16Z
• Authors: Brian Keegan; Katherine Ognyanova; Brooke Foucault W...; Christoph Riedl; Ceyhun Karbeyaz; Waleed Meleis; David Lazer; Jason Radford; Jefferson Hoye
• Keywords: Thriving; Citizen Science; Open Science; Social computing; Computational sociology

Volunteer Science is an online platform enabling anyone to participate in social science research. The goal of build a thriving community research participants and researchers for Massively Open Online Social Experiments (“MOOSEs”). architecture has been built be open researchers, transparent participants, facilitate the levels concurrency needed large scale experiments. Since then, 14 experiments 12 survey-based interventions have developed deployed, with subjects largely being recruited through paid advertising, word mouth, media, search, Mechanical Turk. We are currently replicating several forms validate platform, working new collaborators, developing Moving forward our priorities continuing grow user base, quality control processes diversifying funding models, creating novel