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The Faces Behind the Interface: Putting the Human back into Human Computation through Turkopticon

This week’s paper “Turkopticon: interrupting Worker Invisibility in Amazon Mechanical Turk” by Irani and Silberman (2013) takes on the retail giants Amazon, …

workers at screens in tightly packed cubicles, extending forever.

Amazon Mechanical Turk: Digital sweatshop or second-job safety net?

Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) is an online marketplace that allows companies and developers (“Requesters”) to outsource “microtasks” to humans in the form …