Additional Resources

Empirical Resources

• Amazon Mechanical Turk: A Research Tool for Organizations and Information Systems Scholars (Crowston, 2012)

• Amazon's Mechanical Turk:  A New Source of Inexpensive, Yet High-Quality Data? (Buhrmester, Kwang, & Gosling, 2011)

• Are Your Participants Gaming the System? Screening Mechanical Turk Workers (Downs, Holbrok, Sheng, & Cranor, 2010)

• Conducting Behavioral Research on Amazon's Mechanical Turk (Mason & Suri, 2011)

• I-O and the Crowd: Frequently Asked Questions About Using Mechanical Turk for Research (Barger, Behrend, Sharek, & Singar, 2011)

• Quality Management on Amazon Mechanical Turk (Ipeirotis, Provost, & Wang, 2010)

• The Promise of Mechanical Turk:  How Online Labor Markets Can Help Theorists Run Behavioral Experiments (Rand, 2012)

• Running Experiments on Amazon Mechanical Turk (Paolacci, Chandler, & Ipeirotis, 2010)

• Who are the Turkers?  Worker Demographics in Amazon Mechanical Turk (Ross, Zaldivar, Irani, & Tomlinson, 2010)

• Why I Hate Mechanical Turk Research (and Workshops) (Adar, 2011)

Non-Empirical Resources

• Analyzing the Amazon Mechanical Turk Marketplace

• Data Collection in a Flat World:  The Strengths & Weaknesses of Mechanical Turk Samples (Goodman, Cryder, & Cheema, 2012)

• Requester Best Practices Guide (Amazon Web Services, 2008)