· 2013
Turkopticon
- 798citations
- 2013year
Short summary
Turkopticon is an activist system that enables Amazon Mechanical Turk workers to publicize and evaluate employer relationships, fostering mutual aid and addressing the ethical blind spots in human computation.
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Key points
- Human computation systems like Amazon Mechanical Turk often obscure the relationships between workers and employers.
- Turkopticon is an activist system designed to make these relationships visible and evaluable by workers.
- The system facilitates mutual aid among workers by providing a shared infrastructure for information and support.
- The paper discusses the potential and challenges of creating activist technologies within large socio-technical systems.
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Abstract
As HCI researchers have explored the possibilities of human computation, they have paid less attention to ethics and values of crowdwork. This paper offers an analysis of Amazon Mechanical Turk, a popular human computation system, as a site of technically mediated worker-employer relations. We argue that human computation currently relies on worker invisibility. We then present Turkopticon, an activist system that allows workers to publicize and evaluate their relationships with employers. As a common infrastructure, Turkopticon also enables workers to engage one another in mutual aid. We conclude by discussing the potentials and challenges of sustaining activist technologies that intervene in large, existing socio-technical systems. Copyright © 2013 ACM.
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