File this one under inevitable but hilarious. Mechanical Turk is a service that from its earliest days seemed to invite shenanigans, and indeed researchers show that nearly half of its "turkers" ...

Amazon mTurk (Amazon Mechanical Turk) is a site where you can sign up as a worker and earn money for doing small tasks. In this Amazon Mechanical Turk review, you'll learn all about how it works and ...

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform, which launched in 2005, has allowed humans to make some money on the side by completing small tasks such as data validation or simple transcriptions that “require ...

Source: Labor by txmx-2/ Flickr licensed under CC BY 2.0 Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is currently the most popular crowdsourced marketplace for work. It has rapidly transformed how social science ...

A personality quiz on Amazon's Mechanical Turk received multiple complaints in 2014, but the quiz-makers continued to use the platform for at least another year. For one month, I became the ...

Information Analytics Di Gangi, Paul M.; Howard, Jack L.; McAllister, Charn P.; Thatcher, Jason Bennett. The Influence of Political Skill and Community Capabilities on Microtask Worker Hourly Wage: A ...

All year long, Clark.com's Michael Timmermann is sharing quick and easy ways to save money as part of our Michael Saves series. Check in every Monday as he puts new and familiar savings strategies to ...

Globally dispersed digital gig workers tasked with training artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are in the process of coordinating collective responses to common challenges they face in the ...

A Clark.com reader suggested that I download Turkopticon 2 Beta, which is a user script that helps Mechanical Turk workers decide if jobs are worth it. Once installed, the tool helped me choose ...