Paul Rohwer
ABSTRACT
In 2007, Penguin Books and De Montfort University used a wiki to crowd source a novel. The result was deemed a failure because of the many un-integrated elements; however, in the last year a model utilizing Twitter has achieved success: BBC Audiobooks America has produced two audio books from an iterative progression, singular integration model. With an initial seed Twitter message, a real-time editor chooses the progression from submitted messages---achieving contextual integration---and continues the iterative process until the editor chooses to conclude. The model achieves success by controlling variability and progression, demonstrating that human computation can achieve limited success in un-collaborative literary domains.
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