Being a turker

D Martin, BV Hanrahan, J O'neill, N Gupta - Proceedings of the 17th ACM …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Crowdsourcing is a key current topic in CSCW. We build upon findings of a few qualitative
studies of crowdworkers. We conducted an ethnomethodological analysis of publicly …

The crowd is a collaborative network

ML Gray, S Suri, SS Ali, D Kulkarni - … of the 19th ACM conference on …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
The main goal of this paper is to show that crowdworkers collaborate to fulfill technical and
social needs left by the platform they work on. That is, crowdworkers are not the …

Using Amazon Mechanical Turk and other compensated crowdsourcing sites

GB Schmidt, WM Jettinghoff - Business Horizons, 2016 - Elsevier
Crowdsourcing is becoming recognized as a powerful tool that organizations can use in
order to get work done, this by freelancers and non-employees. We conceptualize …

The communication network within the crowd

M Yin, ML Gray, S Suri, JW Vaughan - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Since its inception, crowdsourcing has been considered a black-box approach to solicit
labor from a crowd of workers. Furthermore, the" crowd" has been viewed as a group of …

Who are the crowdworkers? Shifting demographics in Mechanical Turk

J Ross, L Irani, MS Silberman, A Zaldivar… - CHI'10 extended …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing system in which tasks are distributed
to a population of thousands of anonymous workers for completion. This system is …

Experiences surveying the crowd: Reflections on methods, participation, and reliability

CC Marshall, FM Shipman - Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Crowdsourcing services such as Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) provide new venues for
recruiting participants and conducting studies; hundreds of surveys may be offered to …

[PDF][PDF] Who are the turkers? worker demographics in amazon mechanical turk

J Ross, A Zaldivar, L Irani… - … of California, Irvine …, 2009 - ginnyandsheryl.typepad.com
ABSTRACT Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing system in which tasks are
distributed to a population of thousands of anonymous workers for completion. This system …

Moving the crowd at Threadless: Motivations for participation in a crowdsourcing application

DC Brabham - Information, Communication & Society, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Crowdsourcing is an online, distributed problem-solving and production model already in
use by businesses such as Threadless. com, iStockphoto. com, and InnoCentive. com. This …

mClerk: enabling mobile crowdsourcing in developing regions

A Gupta, W Thies, E Cutrell… - Proceedings of the SIGCHI …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Global crowdsourcing platforms could offer new employment opportunities to low-income
workers in developing countries. However, the impact to date has been limited because …

Managing crowdsourced human computation: a tutorial

PG Ipeirotis, PK Paritosh - … conference companion on World wide web, 2011 - dl.acm.org
The tutorial covers an emerging topic of wide interest: Crowdsourcing. Specifically, we cover
areas of crowdsourcing related to managing structured and unstructured data in a web …