Workers Forum

Workers Forum is an animated message conversation the idea for which developed from Takalas experience as a microtasker in the United States in which she worked for a service where users pay to have a pretend girlfriend or boyfriend texting them Through a crowdsourcing platform the artist responded to the task Write a text message that is positive engaging and convincingly written in the voice of someone texting a significant other The video is based on conversations that took place in a discussion forum between the microtaskers trying to figure out together how to be an invisible partner Microtaskers receive small chunks of large jobs as parttime workers offering a cheap supply of labour for online enterprises