Afra Suci Ramadhan Essay submitted for New Media Theory assignment ‘A Time-Chits Crowdsourcing’ as A Purification of Labor Value “Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003”. Jeff Howe opens his 2006 seminal Wired article about Crowdsourcing with this reflective declaration. The new wave of outsourcing has come; a progeny of late-capitalism and the network technology named Crowdsourcing transformed the rules of the logistic production game. Thanks to the network-based platform, now employers can discover the workers who want to complete tasks and solve problems just by creating a call in a Crowdsourcing platform. No outsourcing consultant is needed because the workers will respond to the employers’ calls and connect directly to them. If Edna Bonacich and Jake Wilson respond the logistic revolution in the dawn of the neoliberal era with characterizing the revolution in production through flexibility and outsourcing (Rossiter and Zehle), now it leans toward Crowdsourcing, which Howe described as an advanced version of outsourcing. The transformation of production, from the manufacturing process toward services and now towards what Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri highlight as the informational economy, demands more labor to do exhaustive tasks related to computerized process and other informational commodities (292). I accede Howe’s impression that the Crowdsourcing platforms allow more people around the world to join the new pool of cheap labor, surpassing geographical borders and local labor policy. While Crowdsourcing opens more provisional job opportunities to earn a living for those in need, nevertheless at the continuation of labor exploitation. Stuck in a constant circuit of production, labor, and capital while companies or employers take advantage of Crowdsourcing platforms to outsource their tasks, several groups have realized that particular working condition is detrimental. Current initiative such as Turkopticon helps the people in the ‘crowd’ of Crowdsourcing spell out the unfair working relationship (New Scientist, 2013). Tiziana Terranova portrays the exhausted digital workers as the victim of the modern sweatshop (33). Digital economy generates a situation where the working process moved from the factory to society. This constellation is well translated through the means of Crowdsourcing. A person can complete the research and content creating tasks from his desk at home during his spare time. Either looking for additional income or multiple jobs, the crowd is seemingly enjoying the