How to use Mechanical Turk ethically

Benedetta Catanzariti

doi:10.4135/9781529608403

How to use Mechanical Turk ethically

Benedetta Catanzariti

School of Social and Political Science

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Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourced marketplace where researchers can recruit anonymous participants to complete surveys or take part in online experiments. This guide discusses the uses of MTurk for data collection; it outlines the origin of MTurk within computer science and its later development for social and behavioural science research. It draws attention to the ethical concerns around the labour practices that underpin MTurk and provides an overview of the challenges associated with the use of MTurk for research in social and behavioural science. Following this overview and building on a set of guidelines for academic research drafted by MTurk workers themselves, this guide offers some practical advice to support ethical research on MTurk.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SAGE Research Methods
Subtitle of host publication	Doing Research Online
Editors	Morgan Currie
Publisher	SAGE Publications
ISBN (Electronic)	9781529608403
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529608403
Publication status	Published - 2022

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