Crowdsourcing, Mechanical Turk, and the Cultural History of Cognitive Labour Apparatus
I will give a presentation of my research at UCSB on February 4th. This will be my second visit to the beautiful UCSB campus three years after our Transliteracies workshop in 2007. Here is the link to the event announcement at UCSB Department of English: Lecture: Ayhan Aytes, “Crowdsourcing, Mechanical Turk and the Cultural History [...]
The Internet as Playground and Factory, Nov 12-14, The New School, NY
This digital labor conference focuses on play and work in the networked economy. There is also a cluster of study on Amazon’s digital labor market, Mechanical Turk in which I will present on the relationship between the cultural history of human machine assemblages and the emerging networked subjectivities.
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