Sarah T. Roberts
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Sarah T. Roberts is an Assistant Professor of Information Studies at UCLA. She is the author of Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media.
Early life and education
Roberts grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. She studied French and Spanish literature at University of Wisconsin-Madison.[1], where she also earned a Masters in Library and Information Science.[1] She went on to attend University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where she earned her PhD.[1]
Career
Roberts was appointed assistant professor at the University of Western Ontario in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies in 2013, a year before completing her dissertation.[2] Roberts joined University of California, Los Angeles's Department of Information Studies in 2016. She is a 2018 Carnegie Fellow and was awarded the EFF Barlow Pioneer Award the same year.[3][4]
Research
Roberts' research focuses on information work and workers and on the social, economic, and political impact of the widespread adoption of the internet in everyday life. Her work has appeared in academic publications and popular media outlets including Slate and The Atlantic.[5][6] She is featured in and served as consultant to The Cleaners, which debuted at Sundance 2018 and aired on PBS in the United States in November 2018.[7]
Behind the Screen
Roberts' first book, Behind the Screen, was published by Yale Press in 2019 and has been reviewed in journals such as the Los Angeles Reviews of Books.[8] It is the first book-length ethnographic study of commercial content moderators and their labor. She has also given talks and interviews on commercial content moderation.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]
Select publications
- Roberts, Sarah T. (2019). Behind the screen: content moderation in the shadows of social media. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300235883. Search this book on
- Roberts, Sarah T. (2018). "View of Digital detritus: 'Error' and the logic of opacity in social media content moderation". First Monday. 23 (3). Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- Sarah T. Roberts (2017). "Aggregating the unseen". In Byström, A.; Soda, M. Pics or it didn’t happen. Munich: Prestel. p. 17-21. Search this book on
- Sarah T. Roberts (2016). "Commercial content moderation: Digital laborers' dirty work.". In Noble, S.U.; Tynes, B. The intersectional internet: Race, sex, class and culture online. New York: Peter Lang. p. 147-159. Search this book on
- Sarah T. Roberts; Safiya Noble (2016). "Through Google-Colored Glass(es): Design, Emotion, Class, and Wearables as Commodity and Control.". In Tettegah, S.; Noble, S. Emotions, Technology & Design. San Diego: Elsevier Academic Press. p. 187-210. Search this book on
- Roberts, Sarah T. (2016). "In/visibility. In Letters & Handshakes". Surplus3: Labour and the Digital. Toronto: Letters & Handshakes.
- Roberts, Sarah T. (2016). "Digital refuse: Canadian garbage, commercial content moderation and the global circulation of social media's waste". Wi: Journal of Mobile Media. 10 (1): 1–18.
- Roberts, Sarah T.; Noble, Safiya U. (2016). "Empowered to name, inspired to act: Social responsibility and diversity as calls to action in the LIS context". Library Trends. 64 (3): 512–532.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Sarah Roberts | UCLA GSEIS". gseis.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ↑ "Sarah T. Roberts - Faculty of Information & Media Studies - Western University". www.fims.uwo.ca. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ↑ "UCLA professor of information studies named 2018 Carnegie Fellow". UCLA. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ↑ "Sarah T. Roberts Honored with EFF's Pioneer Award for Content Moderation Research | UCLA GSE&IS Ampersand". ampersand.gseis.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ↑ Roberts, Sarah T. (2020-04-08). "Fewer Humans Are Moderating Facebook Content. That's Worrying". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ↑ Roberts, Sarah T. (2017-03-08). "Social Media's Silent Filter". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ↑ "Professor featured in documentary that premiered at Sundance Film Festival". UCLA. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ↑ Brock, David C. "Our Censors, Ourselves: Commercial Content Moderation". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ↑ Chotiner, Isaac. "The Underworld of Online Content Moderation". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ↑ Solon, Olivia (2018-03-18). "Data scandal is huge blow for Facebook – and efforts to study its impact on society". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ↑ Hsu, Tiffany. "Bumble Dating App Bans Gun Images After Mass Shootings". The New York Times.
- ↑ "The Logan Paul Suicide Video Shows YouTube Is Facing A Crucial Turning Point". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ↑ Seetharaman, Lauren Weber and Deepa (2017-12-28). "The Worst Job in Technology: Staring at Human Depravity to Keep It Off Facebook". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ↑ Madrigal, Alexis C. (2017-12-15). "'The Basic Grossness of Humans'". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ↑ "Analysis: Mark Zuckerberg built Facebook into a behemoth whose power he underestimates". Los Angeles Times. 2017-09-25. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ↑ Powers, Benjamin; Powers, Benjamin (2017-09-09). "The Human Cost of Monitoring the Internet". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ↑ Chang, Clio (2017-07-05). "Why Urban Dictionary Is Horrifically Racist". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
- ↑ Weill, Kelly (2017-05-04). "Web's Worst Job? Facebook Hires 3,000 to Watch for Murders So You Don't See Them". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2020-05-10.
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