Media Mentions

The Ethics of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

Chronicle of Higher Education

The Ethics of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk: Mechanical Serfdom is Just That

BusinessWeek

On Crowdsourcing: Pennies for Your Thoughts

TIME Magazine

Reputation, Market for Lemons, and Mechanical Turk: Shoddy Work on Mechanical Turk Leads to Poor Pay

TechEye

Reputation, Market for Lemons, and Mechanical Turk: How Mechanical Turk is Broken

Technology Review by MIT

Spam and Mechanical Turk: How You and Google are Losing the Battle Against Spam in Search Results

Washington Post

Crowdsourcing and Standardization: Turning Crowds into Computers

NewScientist

Using Mechanical Turk to Game Social Media: Yelp Aims to Deal With Problem of Fake Reviews: A Rave, a Pan, or Just a Fake?

The New York Times

Mining Consumer Reviews and Impact on Product Sales: Something for the Weekend

Financial Times

Mechanical Turk Spam-o-Meter: Turks of the World, Unite!

The Economist

Bubble Boys

New York Magazine

MIT Technology Review: How Negative Reviews Increase Sales Online

Technology Review by MIT

Strata Jumpstart 2011: Panagiotis Ipeirotis, “Big Data, Stupid Decisions”

Strata Jumpstart 2011

The Hidden Language and “Wonderful Experience” of Product Reviews

O’Reilly Radar

NYU prof: PH has most online workers at night

NewsBytes Phlippines

When Good Feedback Leaves a Bad Impression: Panagiotis Ipeirotis Interviewed at Strata Jumpstart 2011

YouTube

Crowdsourcing links piecework with freelancers competing to work for pennies

Toronto Star

Mining Consumer Reviews and Impact on Product Sales: Research Roundup: Online Product Reviews, Happiness and Choice, CEO Stock Options and the Hunger for Distinctiveness

Knowledge & Wharton

The Unregulated Work of Mechanical Turk

The New York Times

When Good Feedback Leaves a Bad Impression: Panagiotis Ipeirotis on the Vagaries of Semantic Analysis and Mechanical Turk’s Quirks

O’Reilly Radar

Humans Plus Computers Equals Better Crowdsourcing

Bloomberg Businessweek

Intrade’s Black Swans

New York Magazine

When Good Feedback Leaves a Bad Impression: With Online Reviews, “Good” doesn’t Cut It

Forbes

Amazon Mechanical Turk: The Digital Sweatshop

UTNE

IT Trends to Watch in 2012

Campus Technology

Mechanical Turk: Amazon’s New Underclass

Huffington Post

Science Publishing: How to Stop Plagiarism

Nature

The Dystopian Digital Sweatshop That Makes the Internet Run

AlterNet

Big Firms Try Crowdsourcing

Wall Street Journal

Spam and Mechanical Turk

HackerNews

Spam and Mechanical Turk

Techmeme

Start-up finances: Student entrepreneurs tap their networks

Financial Times

Использование бота Google Feedfetcher для DDoS-атаки

Xakep.ru

The Data Dude: NYU Stern’s Panos Ipeirotis

BusinessWeek

Why did Facebook censor this photograph?

Foreign Policy

Global army of online freelancers remakes outsourcing industry

Reuters

Oops! Amazon Web Services Customer Unleashes ‘Denial of Money’ Attack – on Himself

WIRED Enterprise

Network of ‘Moderators’ Decide What Photos Can Be Posted on Facebook, Google, Other Social Media

The Daily Beast

When Google Met Amazon: ‘Denial of Money’ Attack Born

WIRED Cloudline

An NYU Professor Conducted An Experiment And Lost $1200 To Amazon When It Went Awry

Business Insider

Bad Reviews? Don’t Freak Out

Content Ping

The emergent Internet: Twice shy, once bitten

The Economist

Spam and Mechanical Turk: Сервисы поручений превратились в биржу спамеров

Webplanet.ru

Off Screen, Porn Sites Trick Advertisers

Wall Street Journal

Journalism and Mechanical Turk: How Journalists can Use Mechanical Turk to Organize Data, Transcribe Notes

Poynter

Spam and Mechanical Turk: Mechanical Turk Infestato dallo Spam

Punto Informatico

Spam and Mechanical Turk: Mechanical Turk Van Amazon Populair Bij Spammers

Bright.nl

Spam and Mechanical Turk: Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Used to Generate Massive Amounts of Spam

eWeek

Spam and Mechanical Turk: Mechanical Turk: Now With 40.92% Spam

WSJ Allthings Digital

Spam and Mechanical Turk: Mechanical Turk’s Unsavory Side Effect: Massive Spam Generation

FastCompany

Spam and Mechanical Turk: Spam Undermines Mechanical Turk

The Digital Bus

Online Reviews, Grammar and Sales: Does Reviewer Quality Matter?

Freakonomics

Spam and Mechanical Turk: 40% of New Mechanical Turkers’ Work Requests are Now for Spamming – What a Lost Opportunity!

ReadWriteWeb

Spam and Mechanical Turk: 40% of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is Spam

Business Insider

Spam and Mechanical Turk: Spam Hurts Crowdsourcing But Can’t Kill It

Forbes

Spam and Mechanical Turk: Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Used Increasingly for Spam

Boing Boing

Spam and Mechanical Turk: Over 40% of New Mechanical Turk Jobs Involve Spam

Slashdot

Journalism and Mechanical Turk: ProPublica’s Guide to Mechanical Turk

ProPublica

Journalism and Mechanical Turk: Reporting Recipe: Using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for Data Projects

ProPublica

Mechanical Turk Spam-o-Meter: Mischief and Fraud in the Crowdsourced Workforce

New Scientist

Online Reviews, Grammar and Sales: Zappos Hires Mechanical Turk to Proofread Product Reviews

Boing Boing

Online Reviews, Grammar and Sales: Good Writing is Money

Business Insider

Online Reviews, Grammar and Sales: Zappos Using Amazon Mechanical Turk since 2009 to Proofread Product Reviews

Geek.com

Is Crowdsourcing the Embodiment of the Hive Mind?

Fast Thinkinh

Online Reviews, Grammar and Sales: Zappos Uses Mechanical Turk to Correct Spelling/Grammar Errors in Reviews… and it Increases Sales

Techdirt

Online Reviews, Grammar and Sales: Awsum Shoes! Is it Ethical to Fix Grammatical and Spelling Errors in Internet Reviews?

Slate

Online Reviews, Grammar and Sales: How to Ethically Improve Your Customer Reviews

Reuters

Using Mechanical Turk to Game Social Media: Business Owners Suspect Sabotage Tactics From Competitors

ABC News

Online Reviews, Grammar and Sales: The Value of Teaching Your Customers How to Spell

Harvard Business Review

Online Reviews, Grammar and Sales: Zapos, Zappoz, or Zappos: Why Typos Are Good For Your Brand

Forbes

Online Reviews, Grammar and Sales: Craigslist Ads With Good Grammar Get Better Response

Huffington Post

Online Reviews, Grammar and Sales: Craigslist Grammar not so Good-Like

Today.com

Using Humans and Machines Together: Tagasauris and American Graffiti: How Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Unearthed Lost Photos From American Graffiti

MIT Technology Review

The Case for Editing Customer Reviews

CBS Moneywatch

Using Humans and Machines Together: Tagasauris and American Graffiti: Hidden Treasure: Lost Photos From the Set of American Graffiti

Wired