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The Coloniality of Data Work in Latin America

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AIES '21: Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3461702.3462471

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This presentation for the AIES '21 doctoral consortium examines the Latin American crowdsourcing market through a decolonial lens. This research is based on the analysis of the web traffic of ninety-three platforms, interviews with Venezuelan data workers of four platforms, and analysis of the documentation issued by these organizations. The findings show that (1) centuries-old global divisions of labor persist, in this case, with requesters located in advanced economies and workers in the Global South. (2) That the platforms' configuration of the labor process constrains the agency of these workers when producing annotations. And, (3) that ideologies originating from the Global North serve to legitimize and reinforce this global labor market configuration.

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The Coloniality of Data Work in Latin America
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Empirical studies in HCI
2. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
      1. Crowdsourcing

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AIES '21: Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society

July 2021

1077 pages

ISBN:9781450384735

DOI:10.1145/3461702

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Marion Fourcade
University of California Berkeley, USA
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Benjamin Kuipers
University of Michigan, USA
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Seth Lazar
Australian National University, Australia
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Deirdre Mulligan
University of California Berkeley, USA

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