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Turking for a Living: The World of Amazon's Marketplace for Work
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March 20, 2015
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4:15Now PlayingAmazon’s Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourced marketplace that allows people (turkers) to complete small tasks that computers cannot, such as transcribing an audio recording or flagging inappropriate photos for a social network. These turkers represent the Wild West of the crowdsourcing workforce—anything goes. Here, we look beyond the online platform and delve into their world.
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Turking for a Living: The World of Amazon's Marketplace for Work
Producer: Bassam Tariq
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