Tech Workers Coalition unites with Turkopticon in launching our first ever fundraiser to establish Turkopticon’s own server and build solidarity among Turkers. We have been reaching out to Tech workers to explain that Mturk work is actually powering most technologies of the world. In doing so, we are bringing attention to the same issues that […]
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Newsletter 7
As we head into the last few weeks of 2020, we’ll likely start seeing the amount of work on Mechanical Turk decrease temporarily. Universities will break for the semester and many businesses will take time off for the holidays. We hope you will enjoy this down time with your families and take a much needed […]
Newsletter 6
Our November 2020 newsletter. We will be sending a newsletter out once a month to keep you up to date on what is going on at Turkopticon. You can see our previous newsletters on our blog here. We are now helping with taking on suspended accounts and trying to get them reinstated if they were suspended […]
TWC and TW4TW
Tech Workers Coalition, or TWC, is a non-hierarchical, international collective of programmers, bug testers, and service workers in the technology fields. In other words, a bunch of nerds worldwide who want to make the world a more equal, better place. There are chapters from San Diego to Berlin to Bangalore, all taking up their own […]
Press Release
For Immediate Release:March 10, 2021 Contact: Courtney Holsworth, cholsworth@rabengroup.com, (989) 572-8162 Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers Launch Effort To Push Back Against Exploitative Labor Practices Through Turkopticon Platform Today, Amazon Mechanical Turk workers are launching a fundraising campaign to support Turkopticon, a nonprofit crowdsourcing platform for turk workers to share information about exploitative practices and fight for […]
Tech Workers in Solidarity with Turkers: Living in the Hidden Realm of AI
Tech workers in other parts of the industry care are in solidarity with Turkers. Over the last years, our software team has grown with several engineers from Tech Workers Coalition. Tech Workers Coalition exists to build worker power in the tech industry. This week, they published a story by lead organizer Sherry Stanley in their […]
Mass rejections
First, allow me to introduce myself. I’m Sherry, lead organizer for Turkopticon. I have been a Turker for going on 6 years. You may ask why did I finally decide to step up and work to make Turk better? Two words: MASS REJECTION. My personal story involves having a great history of finding good new […]
My Mturk Story, Part 1,
It was five years ago that I discovered Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT.) A chaotic set of events led me to find it and as I’ve become part of the turker community I have learned that everyone has a story. This is mine. When I was 30 years old I decided to go back to school […]
As a moderator on TO,
I spend a lot of time reading reviews from our awesome community. This week, while leaving a review of my own, I started thinking about how I’ve fallen short as a reviewer myself. I am much quicker to leave a negative review for a requester than a positive one. Many of us on TO are […]
Newsletter 5
Welcome to our 5th Newsletter Our August 2020 newsletter. We will be sending a newsletter out once a month to keep you up to date with what is going on at Turkopticon. You can see our previous newsletters on our blog here. We are also now taking on helping suspended accounts be reinstated if they […]