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CONCERNS
== Taxonomy ==
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?


== Best Practices ==
 
Solutions:
== Technologies ==
Taxonomy
 
FTC: Full disclosure (for content providers) of paid opinions
== The Worker-Owned Platform ==
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 14:15, 15 January 2010

Taxonomy

Best Practices

Technologies

The Worker-Owned Platform

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