Personnel

The Crowdsourcing Wage Pledge Survey is organized by M. Six Silberman with support from an international advisory board of researchers and requesters.

Organizer

Michael “Six” Silberman was co-founder, with Lilly Irani, of Turkopticon, the first requester reputation system for Amazon Mechanical Turk. Silberman is employed in the “Crowdsourcing Project” of IG Metall, the German Metalworkers’ Union, but is organizing the Crowdsourcing Wage Pledge Survey in an unofficial capacity.

Advisory Board

The Crowdsourcing Wage Pledge Survey builds on the work of, and is advised by, active requesters and crowdsourcing researchers who bring a variety of perspectives and experiences to the topic of crowdsourcing wages.

In addition to the researchers and requesters listed below, the advisory board includes an administrator from the worker-operated website TurkerView (anonymous by request).

In alphabetical order by last name

Janine Berg
Senior Economist
Inclusive Labour Markets, Labour Relations and Working Conditions Branch
International Labour Organization, Geneva

Chris Callison-Burch
Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania

Miriam Cherry
Professor of Law
Co-Director, Wefel Center for Employment Law
Saint Louis University

Jamie Druckman
Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science
Northwestern University

Marianne Furrer
Research Officer
Research Department
International Labour Organization, Geneva

Mark Graham
Professor of Internet Geography
Oxford Internet Institute
University of Oxford

Benjamin V. Hanrahan
Assistant Professor
College of Information Sciences and Technology
Pennsylvania State University

Ellie Harmon
Senior Instructor
Department of Computer Science
Portland State University

Hannah Johnston
PhD Candidate
Department of Geography
Queen’s University at Kingston

Sara C. Kingsley
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Joe Miele
Lead Designer
Mturk Data Consultants

Uma Rani
Senior Economist
Research Department
International Labour Organization, Geneva

Susumu Saito
PhD Candidate
Graduate School of Fundamental Science and Engineering
Waseda University | Sōdai

Niloufar Salehi
Assistant Professor
School of Information
University of California, Berkeley

Saiph Savage
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
West Virginia University

Kathleen Thelen
Ford Professor of Political Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Past President (2017-2018), American Political Science Association

Bill Tomlinson
Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Informatics
University of California, Irvine

Vanessa Williamson
Fellow in Governance Studies
Brookings Institution