Turkopticon
Interrupting Worker Invisibility in Amazon Mechanical Turk
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23366306 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lilly Irani (0000-0001-8990-2411, University of California, Irvine), Lilly C Irani (University of California - Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA), M Six Silberman (0009-0004-7693-8457, Bureau of Economic Analysis) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | 611-620 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CONFERENCE |
| Venue | Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CONFERENCE) |
| Publisher | ACM (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1145/2470654.2470742 |
| OpenAlex | W2147603330 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 138 |
| References cited | 27 |
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.
Computation · Data science · Engineering ethics · Internet privacy · Invisibility · Sociology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Engineering · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
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| Unique citing works | 138 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 10,62 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 123 |