Kristy Milland – P2P Foundation https://blog.p2pfoundation.net Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 14 Feb 2017 23:50:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 62076519 Kristy Milland: From Digital Worker Subsistence to Organized Resistance https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/kristy-milland-from-digital-worker-subsistence-to-organized-resistance/2017/02/15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/kristy-milland-from-digital-worker-subsistence-to-organized-resistance/2017/02/15#respond Wed, 15 Feb 2017 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=63691 The P2P Foundation is serializing video highlights from last year’s Platform Cooperativism conference. Click here to see all conference videos. (19 mins) Kristy Milland, TurkerNation — If Amazon Mechanical Turk (mTurk) were a boss, one would guess that it hated its employees. This has driven mTurk workers (Turkers) to fight back in a variety of... Continue reading →

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(19 mins) Kristy Milland, TurkerNation — If Amazon Mechanical Turk (mTurk) were a boss, one would guess that it hated its employees. This has driven mTurk workers (Turkers) to fight back in a variety of ways, some of which may be useful to those fighting their own battles in other sectors. From rating customers to writing letters to awakening class consciousness to writing rules about what is ethical customer and platform behaviour, a variety of techniques are being tried in the attempt to make online work more bearable. A good work environment does not have to remain a dream, it can be something we realize together. I will take you from today’s mTurk to what online crowd platforms could be, so we can work together to fix the future of work.

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