The task is dreary, but straightforward: Comb through Jon B.’s Walmart receipt and transcribe his purchases into a spreadsheet. Pay is modest—just nine cents—but there’s a bonus for entering more than ...

For academics who are unable to conduct large, representative surveys of the American public because of cost, Mechanical Turk offers an alternative. However, the research community is actively ...

Since 2005, a dispersed group of sub-minimum wage workers has been performing online tasks for pennies through an Amazon-controlled marketplace called Mechanical Turk. These workers tag photos, ...

A Christmas email campaign is asking Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos to improve terms for workers providing cheap digital labour All around the world, people are writing letters about themselves to a distant, ...

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I’ve been spending too much time at work viewing porn. Writing titles for smutty video clips is one of the easiest and quickest paying gigs I could find at Amazon Mechanical Turk, a service that pays ...

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When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

Miranda Katz is an associate editor at Backchannel. Sign up to get Backchannel's weekly newsletter. Bhatia says that whenever Amazon mailed him a check, it got lost in transit to India. And while he ...

Over the past four decades, countless Calvin students taking “Introduction to Psychology” have served as subjects for faculty research projects. Now Calvin’s Center for Social Research has a new tool ...