The cultural work of microwork
The cultural work of microwork
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微作品的文化工作
作者：
L. Irani
众包系统的作用不仅仅是完成信息工作。本文认为，微工作系统产生了“创新”劳动者和“卑微”劳动者之间的差异，从而改善了新媒体生产文化中的紧张关系。本文重点介绍亚马逊土耳其机器人（AMT）作为微工作众包的一个典型案例。关于众包的伦理研究集中在工人公平和微观劳动异化的问题上。本文着重于AMT的调解文化工作：劳动分工和软件接口。本文从基础设施研究和女性主义科学技术研究中汲取经验，研究亚马逊机械土耳其人的劳动实践，其工人控制方法，以及它产生的用户类型。
Crowdsourcing systems do more than get information work done. This paper argues that microwork systems produce the difference between “innovative” laborers and “menial” laborers, ameliorating resulting tensions in new media production cultures in turn. This paper focuses on Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) as an emblematic case of microwork crowdsourcing. Ethical research on crowdsourcing has focused on questions of worker fairness and microlabor alienation. This paper focuses on the cultural work of AMT’s mediations: divisions of labor and software interfaces. This paper draws from infrastructure studies and feminist science and technology studies to examine Amazon Mechanical Turk labor practice, its methods of worker control, and the kinds of users it produces.