Clickworker

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The term Clickworker originally comes from a NASA project in which a large group of scientific laypeople evaluated photographs of the surface of Mars on the Internet . In the meantime, internet users are also known as clickworkers who work on tasks and projects for companies according to the crowdsourcing principle without being permanently employed by them.

Origin: NASA Clickworker

In 2000, NASA commissioned the non-scientific public to identify and classify craters on known photographs of the Martian surface. The aim was to find out whether the results of the mass evaluation met scientific standards. Since 2001, NASA's Clickworkers have also been evaluating new, previously non-cataloged images of Mars and various asteroids . They mark visible craters on the surface of the celestial bodies with a click of the mouse. NASA's Clickworkers work without payment. All recordings are evaluated several times - the mass of Clickworkers thus ensures the accuracy of the results.

Clickworkers as pseudo self-employed

The term clickworker developed into an umbrella term for Internet users who, based on the principle of paid crowdsourcing, carry out small jobs on a freelance basis , mostly on the side. Clickworkers and companies who want to pass on work orders come together on special crowdsourcing platforms. Professional crowdsourcing companies take care of the recruitment of new clickworkers, the processing of orders, the quality assurance of the results and the payment of the clickworkers.

According to the company humangrid GmbH in Essen, which is active in this sector under the domain clickworker.com, text producers can earn more than 10 € after training (as of 2012). In an example at Streetspotr , contractors received € 1 per magazine sales point whose shelves they photographed according to certain specifications. The actual earnings of a crowdworker are € 3 per hour. Critics of Clickworkers see in this the danger of wage dumping.

criticism

Since there is no correlation between workload and wages and the minimum wage rate is not met, crowdworking has come under strong criticism. The hourly wage is less than three dollars an hour, with the average wage at Mechanical Turk being 1.25 dollars, which is well below the American minimum wage. Due to a lack of occupational health and safety regulations and a lack of social security (for example, there is no security in old age, illness or pregnancy), Andrea Nahles initiated the “Work 4.0” dialogue, in which trade unions, business associations and academics advise on how to do decent work may look like in the future.

literature

Web links

  • Dawn Mission , NASA official homepage, accessed April 8, 2011
  • Work 4.0 - platform of the German federal government on the future of work including clickworking

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Isa Jahnke and Michael Prilla: crowdsourcing. In: Andrea Back, Norbert Gronau and Klaus Daughtermann: Web 2.0 in corporate practice. Basics, case studies and trends in the use of social software. 2nd edition, Munich 2009, p. 128ff. and Dawn Clickworkers ( memento October 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), official website of NASA
  2. ↑ Isa Jahnke and Michael Prilla: crowdsourcing. In: Andrea Back, Norbert Gronau and Klaus Daughtermann: Web 2.0 in corporate practice. Basics, case studies and trends in the use of social software. 2nd edition, Munich 2009, p. 128ff.
  3. ↑ Philipp Wurm: Heimarbeit 2.0 , Tagesspiegel , August 18, 2012, p. 30
  4. ↑ Andreas Lenz: Streetspotr: t3n sales control and Instagram promotion with 155,000 mobile users. In: t3n.de. yeebase media GmbH, January 22, 2013, archived from the original on February 1, 2014 ; Retrieved February 9, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Crowd Guru, Clickworker & Co. Das App-Proletariat , Berliner Zeitung , April 21, 2015
  6. ↑ Additional income from “Clickworker” Small clicks don't make big money , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , April 9, 2015
  7. ↑ Die Mär vom Clickworker , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 2, 2016
  8. ↑ Clickworking: earn money with your smartphone. In: zeit.de . October 31, 2013, accessed September 20, 2015 .
  9. ^ Jonas Rest: Crowd Guru, Clickworker & Co .: Das App-Proletariat. In: berliner-zeitung.de. April 21, 2015, accessed September 20, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Christiane Benner: Who protects the Clickworkers? In: FAZ.net . March 19, 2014, accessed September 20, 2015 .
  11. ↑ Thomas Wagner: Change - Clickworker, unite. In: freitag.de. June 1, 2015, accessed September 20, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Ralf Hoogestraat: The future of work. In: programm.tagesschau24.de. 2015, archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; accessed on September 20, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Crowdworking: “You can't live on what you earn on these projects”. In: The time. May 8, 2016. Retrieved June 27, 2017 .