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=Problems to Tackle=
== Taxonomy ==


==CONCERNS==  
== Best Practices ==
Participants:
·        Surveillance / control
·        Alienation
o  People are not connected to the world
o  People are not connected to the purpose of the job
·        Moral valence
·        Addiction -- Farmville (and virtual currency)
·        Reputation portability -- no incentives for superrogatory behavior
Personally bearing high risk
   
“Employer”
·        Disclosure
·        Reputation
   
Platforms
·        Spam free
·        How much liability should they bear
Systemic concerns:
·        Motivation (kill time, fun, make a living)
·        Disclosure
·        Race to the bottom
·        Exploitation of workers
o  Standard labor law
o  Profit mainly away
o  Child labor
Addiction
·        How to keep the work from hurting people / the internet
·        Demographics
- In house employees losing jobs (but counterbalanced by more innovation?)
- Low quality of work
-What about when governments do this?


:: Demographics
== Technologies ==
::In house employees losing jobs (but counterbalanced by more innovation?)
::Low quality of work
::What about when governments do this?


== The Worker-Owned Platform ==
==SOLUTIONS==
:Taxonomy
:FTC: Full disclosure (for content providers) of paid opinions
:Safe harbor – notice and takedown
:Best practices - focused at who?
:Crowd-owned platforms
:Technological/plugins
::"Real Name" analogue "Real Purpose" for disclosure
:: Categorize employers
: Volunteer filtering
:Social tools (live chat etc.) for alienation
:Platform interoperability for reputation portability
:Plugins like Turkopticon for reviews of tasks

Latest revision as of 13:15, 15 January 2010

Taxonomy

Best Practices

Technologies

The Worker-Owned Platform

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