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= Problems =
= Problems =
== Concerns ==
== Concerns ==
Participants
Participants
-Surveillance / control
-Surveillance / control
- Alienation
- Alienation
:: - People are not connected to the world
:: - People are not connected to the world
- People are not connected to the purpose of the job
- People are not connected to the purpose of the job
- Moral valence
- Moral valence
- Addiction -- Farmville (and virtual currency)  
- Addiction -- Farmville (and virtual currency)  
- Reputation portability -- no incentives for superrogatory behavior
- Reputation portability -- no incentives for superrogatory behavior
- Personally bearing high risk
- Personally bearing high risk
      
      

Revision as of 18:59, 14 January 2010

Problems

Concerns

Participants

-Surveillance / control

- Alienation

- People are not connected to the world

- 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

- Standard labor law
- Profit mainly away
- 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?


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