CROWDSOURCING AND LITERATURE: A REPORT FROM THE PROJECT “WIERSZE ZA STO DOLARÓW”

• Authors: Marecki Piotr
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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The text is set within the poetics of a technical report, used to communicate the final results of projects in the digital media field. Its subject is the poetry collection of my authorship, Wiersze za sto dolarów (One-Hundred-Dollar Poems), written in Polish in 2017 using the crowdsourcing tool Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT). The project is discussed in the context of other literary works created with AMT, among others On the Subcontract by Nick Thurston. The paper discusses the features of the literary work created by the Mechanical Turks, the phenomenon of Decentring Digital Media and questions of authorship, art project appraisal, and creation as paid work.

Keywords

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DECENTRING DIGITAL MEDIA; ELECTRONIC LITERATURE; DIGITAL TEXTUALITY; POLAND

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 79 – 86

Contributors

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Marecki Piotr

• Institute of culture, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Prof. Stanisława Łojasiewicza 4, 30-348 Kraków, Poland