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Cognitive Labor, Crowdsourcing, and Cultural History of Human/Machine Assemblages LEA Magazine Article


LEA Volume 17 Issue 1
Senior Editor for this issue: Lanfranco Aceti

Reference: Ayhan Aytes, “Cognitive Labor, Crowdsourcing, and Cultural History of Human/Machine Assemblages,” ed. Lanfranco Aceti, Leonardo Electronic Almanac (Mish Mash) 17, no. 1 (2011): 118-127.

Cognitive Labor, Crowdsourcing, and Cultural History of Human/Machine Assemblages
by Ayhan Aytes
Article DOI: 10.5900/SU_9781906897116_2011.17(1)_118

In November 2005, Amazon Web Services started a web-based labor market where workers from across the world can choose and complete human intelligence tasks (HITS) designed by corporate developers. Labor required for fulfilling HITS varies: finding and matching information and images, translating text, transcribing audio, tagging images, answering surveys or visiting a blog. The amount of pay for each HIT ranges from one cent to several US dollars.

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