Aaron Shaw: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

The online labor market Amazon Mechnical Turk (or AMT) offers a controversial example of Crowdsourcing by allowing employers to offer micro-payments to a global pool of “Turkers” in exchange for work on small “Human Intelligence Tasks” (called HITs). Aaron Shaw, Research Fellow at the Berkman Center and a Ph.D student at UC Berkeley discusses who’s using AMT, its implications for social scientists, the future of labor markets, and life on the Internet as we know it.

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