How to use Mechanical Turk ethically

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Abstract

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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSAGE Research Methods
Subtitle of host publicationDoing Research Online
EditorsMorgan Currie
PublisherSAGE Publications
ISBN (Electronic)9781529608403
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • surveying
  • wages
  • workers

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