Hi There,<br> Trebor said I should introduce myself, and I just finished pecking out my abstract for my talk so I figured I'd jump in.<br><br>At the conference I'm going to be talking about two projects I've done with Mechanical Turk. <br>
<br>The first
project asked Amazon Mechanical Turk workers to come up with more
Mehcanical Turk Human Intelligence Tasks ("HITs"). After accumulating
215 tasks, I created a new HIT where workers could evaluate each task
on its originality, how likely they'd participate in it, and what a
fair price they would pay another worker for it would be. The
resulting aggregate form of this data provides a meta-view of Turker's
individual creative and economic proclivities.<br>
<br>The other project I'll be discussing is called Emoji Dick, and uses
Amazon's Mechanical Turk to translate Herman Melville's Moby Dick into
Japanese emoticons called emoji. The payment for this task has itself
been sourced from another crowd using the site Kickstarter, which
provides payment and promotional infrastructure for funding small and
large projects via the crowd. In my talk I will discuss the motivations
and problems implicated by this work, as well as a the technical and
methodological details of how I'm executing it.<br><br>You can find out more about it here:<br><br><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fred/emoji-dick">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fred/emoji-dick</a><br>
<br>Anyway, I work full time for Creative Commons but also teach "Copyright, Commerce and Culture" at NYU. I'm looking forward to meeting everyone at the conference!<br><br><br>F<br><br clear="all"><br><br>~ ~ ~<br>
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