Shepherd’s Office. The politics of digital labor and its impact on the Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers

Zukalova, Zaneta

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Title

Shepherd’s Office. The politics of digital labor and its impact on the Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers

Author(s)

Zukalova, Zaneta

Issue Date

2020-03

Keyword(s)

• digital labour
• microtasking
• amazon mechanical turk
• performance art
• contemporary art
• politics
• economy
• workers rights
• HITs

Abstract

Shepherd’s Office (SO) is a collaborative performance and research project between artists Daniela Vainio and Zaneta Zukalova, first introduced at Tate Modern (Tate Exchange) London in 2017, which questions the systematic order of Amazon Mechanical Turk. In May 2019, SO held a live investigative performance at the Art Fair Suomi in Helsinki, with an aim to collect the data that informs this article; SO’s focus was on the socio-political background of Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers and their personal relations to and opinions on the platform. The present article introduces both the artistic and investigative aspects of the project and the problematics of Amazon Mechanical Turk, and offers an insight into the research inputs, processes, and outcomes.

Series/Report Name or Number

Media-N, vol. 16, issue 1

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text

Language

en

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/112901

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.median.v16i1.215

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• Copyright 2020 Zaneta Zukalova
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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