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As to the final question, here's a response by Turkers to researchers
leveraging us as a study pool:
<a href="http://guidelines.wearedynamo.org/" eudora="autourl">
http://guidelines.wearedynamo.org/</a><br>
Kristy<br><br>
At 05:20 PM 10/06/2014, Nathan Schneider wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Thanks so much for raising the
question of digital piecework research, Sarah. I am very interested in
this issue, and am currently reporting a story about it for the Chronicle
of Higher Education. I would love to talk with people who have had direct
experience with crowdsourcing as a research method—positive, negative,
and everything in between. If anyone on this list is interested in
discussing what they've seen for a potential story in the Chronicle,
contact me off-thread. <br>
<br>
Where have people been seeing this kind of practice taking place? Has
there been any evidence about how the results might compare to, say,
using undergraduates? And how has this kind of crowdsourcing been a part
of efforts to do organizing in, say, the Mechanical Turk
community?<br><br>
Nathan<br><br>
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On 10/06/2014 02:53 PM, Sarah T. Roberts wrote:<br>
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<pre>Greetings, all -
I recently asked a question on the #dl14 Facebook page and thought I’d
send it out to all on the list. As a researcher actively engaged in
trying to bring to light the economic and labor realities of people
working in digital piecework contexts, I have been disturbed that people,
often my own peers (e.g., parties from my graduate school department),
turn to services like Mechanical Turk and others to provide large-scale
processing of tasks related to research projects, with seemingly little
or no interrogation or critique of the economy upon which they are
relying to conduct their research. While I’m sure the way these
projects get past ethics boards is due to the compensation that the
projects provide, there is such minimal accountability and ability for
either researcher or subject to follow up/follow through once the
research task is completed that it seems a dangerous practice in which to
engage. This is even before we enter into a critique of these platforms,
in gene
ral.
When I brought this up on Fb, I asked if anyone coming to #dl14 might be
working on this topic. One person responded that she’s not working
directly on it, but is interested in it and wants to talk more about it.
It would be great to get a discussion going on the list that could then
spill over into our time together in NYC.
Anyone interested?
Best,
Sarah
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S a r a h T. R o b e r t s, P h. D.
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS)
Western University
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Blogging periodically at
<a href="http://illusionofvolition.com">http://illusionofvolition.com</a>
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