Some workers who participate in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace say the company suspended their payments accounts without explanation due to an apparent technical problem in ...

When academics and other researchers need to recruit people for large-scale surveys, they often rely upon crowdsourcing sites ...

Captricity, a service which uses Amazon Mechanical Turk to digitize paper forms, is helping the Food And Drug Administration tackle a massive drug safety report backlog. How Amazon Mechanical Turk ...

A personality quiz on Amazon's Mechanical Turk received multiple complaints in 2014, but the quiz-makers continued to use the platform for at least another year. For one month, I became the ...

A subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides a Web services system that uses people to perform tasks better handled by humans than computers. Mechanical Turk is a "crowdsourcing" system, in which ...