REVERSING GLOBALISATION

Un film sur le Mechanical Turk, joué par des travailleurs du Mechanical Turk

Stéphane Degoutin et Gwenola Wagon proposent le workshop "Reversing Globalisation" à la Sabanci University, Istanbul pendant ISEA 2011 (16-17 septembre 2011).

Pendant ce workshop à Istanbul, nous interrogerons le Mechanical Turk, ce service étrange proposé par Amazon depuis 2005. C'est le plus célèbre des "places de marché" en ligne, qui sont souvent comparées à des "sweatshops virtuels". Pendant le workshop, nous détournerons le Mechanical Turk pour lui faire produire sa propre critique.
REVERSING GLOBALISATION

A movie on the Mechanical Turk, played by Mechanical Turk workers

Stéphane Degoutin and Gwenola Wagon will lead the workshop "Reversing Globalisation" at Sabanci University, Istanbul during ISEA 2011 (September 16-17, 2011).

During this workshop in Istanbul, we will question the “Mechanical Turk”, the strange online service offered by Amazon since 2005. It is the most famous of the online labour markets, which are often described as “virtual sweatshops”. During the workshop, we will use the Mechanical Turk backwards, to produce its own political critique.