Operating an Employer Reputation System: Lessons from Turkopticon, 2008-2015
Resources - Author: Lilly Irani, M. Six Silberman / Year: 2016
In November 2005, Amazon launched Mechanical Turk (AMT), a website where “requesters” can post tasks, called “Human Intelligence Tasks” or “HITs”, for workers to complete for pay. Workers are required to agree that they are independent contractors, not employees, and that they are therefore not entitled to minimum wage...
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