Crowdworking Service

A Crowdworking Service is a crowdsourcing system that is a working system.

• Context:
  • It can be used by a Crowdworkers (from a crowd-based labor force).
• Example(s):
  • Amazon Mechanical Turk.
  • Clickworker.
  • Cloudcrowd.
  • CastingWords.
• See: Volunteering System.

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References

2014

• http://www.thenation.com/article/how-crowdworkers-became-ghosts-digital-machine/
  • QUOTE: Mechanical Turk is the innovation behind “crowdworking,” the low-wage virtual labor phenomenon that has reinvented piecework for the digital age. Created by Amazon in 2005, it remains one of the central platforms — markets, really — where crowd-based labor is bought and sold. As many as 500,000 “crowdworkers” power the Mechanical Turk machine, while millions more (no one knows how many exactly) fuel competitor sites like CrowdFlower, Clickworker, CloudCrowd and dozens of smaller ones.

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