Cognitive Labor, Crowdsourcing, and Cultural History of Human/Machine Assemblages

Authors

  • Ayhan Aytes

Abstract

In November 2005, Amazon Web Services started a web-based labor market where workers from across the world can choose and complete human intelligence tasks (HITS) designed by corporate developers. Labor required for fulfilling HITS varies: finding and matching information and images, translating text, transcribing audio, tagging images, answering surveys or visiting a blog. The amount of pay for each HIT ranges from one cent to several US dollars.

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2010-08-01

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