Annotation
We are always looking for folks to annotate articles for us. This is a key element of our work and is absolutely essential in accomplishing our overall goals.
A brief description of what we're looking for is below. Interested? Please fill out this survey and reach out to Dwight Knell at dwight@meedan.com.
We are working now on future rounds of testing data, and we’d really like your help with annotating articles for us. This data will lay the groundwork for further explorations of article credibility on the web that our group will conduct. In order to develop the data, we need your support in reviewing the articles and marking them up with a simple set of indicators.
Specifically, each annotator's responsibilities include:
- Reading 50 articles (subject matter TBD). Different articles have different levels of credibility.
- Reviewing definitions of a few indicators. For instance, we might ask you to look at an article and indicate if the article contains a clickbait headline. We’ll give you clear definitions of each indicator and how to rate them.
- Marking up, on a table or another platform that we’ll give you access to, a simple set of indicators of the article’s credibility.
In return, we can offer the following in compensation:
- We can pay a stipend with a ceiling of $150 for each annotator's efforts.
- We can offer academic incentives (class credit, etc).
- If you choose, we can credit your support if we publish the data.
