Today, digital platforms are increasingly mediating our day-to-day work and crowdsourced forms of labor are gaining importance. Platforms like
Amazon Mechanical Turk and
Universal Human Relevance System taskify work and draw on a volatile and distributed crowd of workers that compete to find their next paid task. We are exploring alternative models to task allocation logics defined and agreed upon by the workers of the platforms, so the platforms belong to those who work on it.