Behind the Screen : Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media

Sarah T. Roberts

ISBN 10: 0300261470 / ISBN 13: 9780300261479

Editore: Yale University Press Nov 2021, 2021

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Neuware - Nearly 100,000 commercial content moderators screen social media uploads daily, acting as shields to protect users from hateful language, violent videos, and online cruelty. Grounded in interviews with these hidden workers, this book is a revelatory investigation into the contemporary internet and a growing but disturbing industry, kept in the shadows by design. Codice articolo 9780300261479

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Titolo: Behind the Screen : Content Moderation in ...

Casa editrice: Yale University Press Nov 2021

Data di pubblicazione: 2021

Legatura: Taschenbuch

Condizione: Neu

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An eye-opening look at the invisible workers who protect us from seeing humanity’s worst on today’s commercial internet
 
Social media on the internet can be a nightmarish place. A primary shield against hateful language, violent videos, and online cruelty uploaded by users is not an algorithm. It is people. Mostly invisible by design, more than 100,000 commercial content moderators evaluate posts on mainstream social media platforms: enforcing internal policies, training artificial intelligence systems, and actively screening and removing offensive material—sometimes thousands of items per day.
 
Sarah T. Roberts, an award-winning social media scholar, offers the first extensive ethnographic study of the commercial content moderation industry. Based on interviews with workers from Silicon Valley to the Philippines, at boutique firms and at major social media companies, she contextualizes this hidden industry and examines the emotional toll it takes on its workers. This revealing investigation of the people “behind the screen” offers insights into not only the reality of our commercial internet but the future of globalized labor in the digital age.

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Sarah T. Roberts is assistant professor of information studies in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a 2018 Carnegie Fellow and a 2018 winner of the EFF Pioneer Award.