Seize the means of your social media production.
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Sarah T. Roberts, Ph.D.
@ubiquity75@dair-community.social
mastodon 4.7.3Professor, researcher, writer, teacher. I care about #contentmoderation, #tech, #digitallabor, the state of the world. I like animals and #synthesizers and games (#ttrpg; #boardgames; #videogames). On the internet since 1993. Mac user since they came out. I like old computers and OSes. I love #cooking. Siouxsie is my queen.
Los Angeles/Tovangaar-based white settler. Gay lady.
I wrote an entire book on content moderation called Behind the Screen. Now might be an interesting time to read it.
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seize the means of our social media production!
Reply guy syndrome is worse here than elsewhere.
These Governors should be arrested for human trafficking.
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@josh@sciences.social @dansinker@omfg.town Thanks, Josh. Yes, I’ve been studying content moderation _as work_, and the workers who do it, for almost 13 years. Here is my book on the subject. You may wish to check it out. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300261479/behind-the-screen
It doesn’t take much of anything to threaten the powers that be. So very little, in fact, that it makes me have hope - probably the very opposite of what was intended by the destruction of this public artwork.
The first 15-20 minutes of doing email is deleting crap emails.
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It’s out! Listen to episode 001 of The Data Fix with @mel_hogan@mstdn.ca in which she and I discuss content moderation, AI, Twitter and Melon, the dangers of the present moment, capitalism and grievance. So honored to be Mél’s first guest in this important new series.
https://www.thedatafix.net/episodes/001
It’s important to keep the internet full of erroneous information, conspiracies, and confusion ahead of the next federal elections; otherwise, Jim Jordan’s allies don’t stand a chance.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/technology/gop-disinformation-researchers-2024-election.html
These governors are criminal human traffickers.
The simplified Mandarin edition of Behind the Screen is out, and it’s lovely. It’s been released by the Guangdong People’s Publishing House.
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@zoeschiffer @drfreeride This is a new twist on Elno’s “Everyone must work at the office” policy.
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@esqueer@mastodon.social 100%. And they’re not bothered in the least by inconsistencies among their previously stated commitments or positions.
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@josh@sciences.social @mathew@mastodon.social @dansinker@omfg.town We understand the problems all too well. The problem is: their business model. Cry me a river.
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@mmasnick@mastodon.social @Quinnae_Moon@wandering.shop ugh, this is so real!! Thank you, Mike!
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@drewharwell@mastodon.social @xerophile@union.place Don’t delete it.
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@dansinker@omfg.town @josh@sciences.social Thank you! Read every PP ever, btw. ;)
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@San_amd@mastodon.social @yassin@tilde.zone @josh@sciences.social @dansinker@omfg.town To those interested, Germany is a hub of commercial content moderation work for a number of reasons, but certainly because of the “NetzDG” law that requires rapid takedown of material illegal in Germany or imposes huge fines.
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@San_amd@mastodon.social @yassin@tilde.zone @josh@sciences.social @dansinker@omfg.town Word. Globalized worker solidarity, as globalization is a strategy to mitigate workers’ power. Solidarity.
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@mmasnick@mastodon.social @vruz@mastodon.social Wow. That is absolutely pathetic. May it ruin him.
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@mathew@mastodon.social @josh@sciences.social @dansinker@omfg.town I’m leaning toward your last statement.
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@San_amd@mastodon.social @yassin@tilde.zone @josh@sciences.social @dansinker@omfg.town Oh yes, that’s a key point. I just met a person from [country redacted] who had been working at one of Fb’s notorious outsourcing sites outside of Berlin (you know the one). He was forced to leave his country of origin due to economic collapse there and because of his sexual identity. He had an advanced degree in an employable field but was relegated to this work due to his migrant status. He was thoroughly traumatized. Sigh. 💔💔💔
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@San_amd@mastodon.social @yassin@tilde.zone @josh@sciences.social @dansinker@omfg.town Any platform of two million users or more is subject to the law. Which, it turns out, is a small number for commercial social media operations.
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@lapingvino@neurodifferent.me @josh@sciences.social @dansinker@omfg.town It’s a pretty miserable job. I hope they’re okay.
“You don’t know what it was like with Adam and I.” —the first few minutes of The Crowded Room. *groan*
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Yes, you can now find The Data Fix on your favorite podcast player!
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@MortenBay@mastodon.social @alex@dair-community.social Thank you, my friend!!
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@alex@dair-community.social Thank you, brilliant woman in AI ethics!
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@djripley@mastodon.lol @jdeitchman@mastodon.social 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻thank you!
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@San_amd@mastodon.social @yassin@tilde.zone @josh@sciences.social @dansinker@omfg.town Can’t wait to read this!! Is there material that you can share yet? Please drop me an email first name dot last name @ucla.edu
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@lapingvino@neurodifferent.me @josh@sciences.social @dansinker@omfg.town Indeed. Although not all European moderation jobs have those conditions.
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@annika@xoxo.zone @ryanrandall@hcommons.social *logs off the internet*
Does anyone know how I might access a copy of the “Orecchio” article from Red Herring’s April 1999 issue (an April Fool’s edition)?