Online collaborative translation: its ethical, social, and conceptual conditions and consequences

This paper analyses the conceptual, social and ethical dimensions of online collaborative translation particularly one its major subtypes, crowdsourcing. Since is still a rather young field research there are conceptual uncertainties, surrounding selection meta- or top-level concept for recent forms (such as crowdsourcing), unsolicited self-managed (like Wikipedia translation), various fan translation. argues using meta-concept, based on painstaking analysis justification against competitors. The focuses crowdsourcing profit-oriented companies like Facebook consequences. It concludes by investigating whether this kind exploitative despite seemingly mutually beneficial transaction between volunteer translators employing them, usually unpaid.