{"id":10584,"date":"2018-10-15T06:58:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T05:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=10584"},"modified":"2018-10-15T06:58:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T05:58:58","slug":"ghostwriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2018\/10\/ghostwriter\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghostwriter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic had an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2018\/08\/fiverr-online-gig-economy\/569083\/\">interesting article<\/a> on online gig platforms where you can even buy love letters.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For just $7\u2014$5 plus a $2 service fee charged by Fiverr\u2014Jelena wrote a 200-word love letter for me. It was great: I told her that my fictional paramour and I had been dating for 161 days, and she added up those digits, which equal the number eight, and made a reference to how flipping an \u201c8\u201d on its side would lead to the infinity sign. \u201cI wanna flip that 8 to the left and spend it with you,\u201d she wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can buy space in a fake journal. But can you buy also research? At least there is some indication of that.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Graham and his colleagues interviewed Arvin, a university professor in Manila, who, at the time he signed up for a digital platform, was frustrated by his low wages and long commute at the university. Once he started selling his services doing search-engine optimization, he was able to leave his university job and soon made three times what he had made before\u2014about $600 a month\u2014working just 25\u201330 hours a week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/screen-2.png\" data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10586 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/screen-2-597x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/screen-2-597x500.png 597w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/screen-2-620x519.png 620w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/screen-2-768x643.png 768w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/screen-2.png 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is a category research and \u00a0there are ghost writers waiting for you<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/screen-1.png\" data-rel=\"key-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/screen-1-581x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/screen-1-581x500.png 581w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/screen-1-620x533.png 620w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/screen-1-768x661.png 768w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/screen-1.png 1247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 12.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic had an interesting article on online gig platforms where you can even buy love letters. For just $7\u2014$5 plus a $2 service fee charged by Fiverr\u2014Jelena wrote a 200-word love letter for me. It was great: I told her that my fictional paramour and I had been dating for 161 days, and she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2018\/10\/ghostwriter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ghostwriter<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10588,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10584\/revisions\/10588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}