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Software Aims to Ensure Fairness in Crowdsourcing Projects.

The article discusses crowdsourcing as of August 2013, focusing on the comments of the researcher Lilly Irani concerning the potentially adverse treatment of workers by crowdsouring employers as well as the Turkopticon software tool that aims to disseminate worker feedback to potential crowdsourcing...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 56; no. 8; pp. 19 - 22
Main Author: Hyman, Paul
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Aug2013
Subjects:
Crowdsourcing
Industrial relations
Computer software development
Employee services
Psychological feedback
Irani, Lilly
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses crowdsourcing as of August 2013, focusing on the comments of the researcher Lilly Irani concerning the potentially adverse treatment of workers by crowdsouring employers as well as the Turkopticon software tool that aims to disseminate worker feedback to potential crowdsourcing employees. Topics include Human Intelligence Tasks, the Internet crowdsourcing marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk, the potential abuses of employers and employees in crowdsourcing agreements, and the online labor platform MobileWorks.