Communications of the ACM story features Turkopticon

Turkopticon was the focus of a story “Software Aims to Ensure Fairness in Crowdsourcing” in the August 2013 issue of the Communications of the ACM, the widely-read magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery. For me, coverage in the premier computing association magazine gives me a sense of triumph, as if we scaled the walls of the Computer Science (CS) profession somehow. Questions of politics and ethics are often marginal within CS departments; our hope was that Turkopticon might draw attention to the labor and power issues in computation not only among communication scholars, but also among the computer scientists building these labor systems.