On the Ethics of Crowdsourced Research

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Diagnosing Gender Bias in Image Recognition Systems (2020, background): “The use of temporary and anonymous workers who lack the labor protections of traditional research assistants employed through a higher education institution has been discussed extensively by other scholars (see Pittman and Sheehan 2016; Williamson 2016).”
The Expertise Involved in Deciding which HITs are Worth Doing on Amazon Mechanical Turk (2021, background): “That said, there are open questions in how to achieve a ‘fairer’ market, for instance, should a worker be paid based on the where the task was posted or where the task was completed [39]? Or who would remunerate the workers for unpaid search time [21]? What is clear however, is that the current appr”
Reconsidering the expectancy disconfirmation model. Three experimental replications (2017, methodology): “To account for this, in line with suggestions by Williamson (2016), we paid an hourly wage, which was greater than the federal minimum hourly wage ($7.”
Examining Crowd Work and Gig Work Through the Historical Lens of Piecework (2017, background): “We should also take a moment to explore the opportunity to discuss the ethics of on–demand labor, as Williamson does [158].”