More than fun and money. Worker Motivation in Crowdsourcing - A Study on Mechanical Turk

By Nicolas Kaufmann, Thimo Schulze, Daniel J. Veit. Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2011

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Being a turker (2014, background): “However in the some cases [13] it seems more problematic since they ignored the results from their survey that showed pay as the most important motivation.”
CrowdBC: A Blockchain-Based Decentralized Framework for Crowdsourcing (2019, background): “We refer readers to a comprehensive survey on crowdsourcing for more information [16], [17], [18], [19], [20].”
Examining Crowd Work and Gig Work Through the Historical Lens of Piecework (2017, background): “Thus, those who choose to opt out of the traditional labor force and spend signiﬁcant time on Mechanical Turk are especially motivated by the opportunity for autonomy and transience between tasks [77].”
Fair Work: Crowd Work Minimum Wage with One Line of Code (2019, background): “Early surveys reported multiple overlapping motivators (Ipeirotis 2010; Kaufmann, Schulze, and Veit 2011) including intrinsic enjoyment, and detailed variations in motivation across different geographic regions (Antin and Shaw 2012).”
A Data-Driven Analysis of Workers' Earnings on Amazon Mechanical Turk (2017, background): “tent creation tasks are pulling down the overall wage distribution. This is problematic as the primary goal of workers is income generation [4,13,44,47], rather than having fun or making pocket money [2,4,41]. Many people working on low paying HITs are likely from groups traditionally excluded from ”
Systems Perspective of Amazon Mechanical Turk for Organizational Research: Review and Recommendations (2017, background): “Compensation is of paramount importance to MTurk workers, as compensation is a main motivator for completing work on MTurk (Paolacci et al., 2010; Behrend et al., 2011; Kaufmann et al., 2011).”
The Future of Work in the ‘Sharing Economy’. Market Efficiency and Equitable Opportunities or Unfair Precarisation? (2016, unknown): “Even in MTurk, where earnings are very low, various studies show that money is the primary motive (Kaufmann et al., 2011; Pilz & Gewald, 2013; Ross et al., 2010); this is further confirmed by longitudinal ethnomethodological studies of online communities such as ‘Turker Nation’ and ‘Turkopticon’…”