TY - GEN
T1 - Being a turker
AU - Martin, David
AU - Hanrahan, Benjamin V.
AU - O'Neill, Jacki
AU - Gupta, Neha
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - We conducted an ethnomethodological analysis of publicly available content on Turker Nation, a general forum for Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) users. Using forum data we provide novel depth and detail on how the Turker Nation members operate as economic actors, working out which Requesters and jobs are worthwhile to them. We show some of the key ways Turker Nation functions as a community and also look further into Turker-Requester relationships from the Turker perspective - considering practical, emotional and moral aspects. Finally, following Star and Strauss [25] we analyse Turking as a form of invisible work. We do this to illustrate practical and ethical issues relating to working with Turkers and AMT, and to promote design directions to support Turkers and their relationships with Requesters.
AB - We conducted an ethnomethodological analysis of publicly available content on Turker Nation, a general forum for Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) users. Using forum data we provide novel depth and detail on how the Turker Nation members operate as economic actors, working out which Requesters and jobs are worthwhile to them. We show some of the key ways Turker Nation functions as a community and also look further into Turker-Requester relationships from the Turker perspective - considering practical, emotional and moral aspects. Finally, following Star and Strauss [25] we analyse Turking as a form of invisible work. We do this to illustrate practical and ethical issues relating to working with Turkers and AMT, and to promote design directions to support Turkers and their relationships with Requesters.
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U2 - 10.1145/2531602.2531663
DO - 10.1145/2531602.2531663
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84899030093
SN - 9781450325400
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 224
EP - 235
BT - CSCW 2014 - Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2014
Y2 - 15 February 2014 through 19 February 2014
ER -