Sarah T. Roberts
Sarah T. Roberts is Assistant Professor in Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She was previously Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS) at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.
Her work focuses on information labor and laborers, particularly in the digital context, with special emphasis focused on the practice and practitioners of Commercial Content Moderation (CCM), a term she coined.
She completed her doctorate and was a Fellow, Information in Society, at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Academic and research interests are focused on digital labor and “knowledge work,” and the reconfigurations of labor and production in a Post-Industrial, globalized context.
Other scholarly interests include dissections of notions of information in society, and its attendant sociocultural, economic and ethical implications, as well as the political economy of digital information, the Internet, ICT and popular media. Also under discussion are issues of digital (in)equities, Internet/networked culture, the nature of digital information, information transmission and dissemination, information as commodity/currency, digital and “new media” culture studies, gaming, critical historical technology studies, and Internet policy development.
http:///www.illusionofvolition.com for most current information.
Her work focuses on information labor and laborers, particularly in the digital context, with special emphasis focused on the practice and practitioners of Commercial Content Moderation (CCM), a term she coined.
She completed her doctorate and was a Fellow, Information in Society, at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Academic and research interests are focused on digital labor and “knowledge work,” and the reconfigurations of labor and production in a Post-Industrial, globalized context.
Other scholarly interests include dissections of notions of information in society, and its attendant sociocultural, economic and ethical implications, as well as the political economy of digital information, the Internet, ICT and popular media. Also under discussion are issues of digital (in)equities, Internet/networked culture, the nature of digital information, information transmission and dissemination, information as commodity/currency, digital and “new media” culture studies, gaming, critical historical technology studies, and Internet policy development.
http:///www.illusionofvolition.com for most current information.
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detritus created through an entirely digital set of practices I term “Commercial Content Moderation” (CCM). The attempt to offload mounds of e-waste and the similar ways in which a great deal of physical trash circulates around the globe are then directly connected to the kind of disposal that CCM workers do, increasingly undertaken in sites
like the Philippines, the Business Process Outsourcing (or BPO) capital of world. Such e-waste arrives in the archipelago for dismantling, repurpose and storage, alongside outsourced CCM. These physical objects now deemed “waste” were once crucial to the production of the very material for which CCM workers now screen and remove.
detritus created through an entirely digital set of practices I term “Commercial Content Moderation” (CCM). The attempt to offload mounds of e-waste and the similar ways in which a great deal of physical trash circulates around the globe are then directly connected to the kind of disposal that CCM workers do, increasingly undertaken in sites
like the Philippines, the Business Process Outsourcing (or BPO) capital of world. Such e-waste arrives in the archipelago for dismantling, repurpose and storage, alongside outsourced CCM. These physical objects now deemed “waste” were once crucial to the production of the very material for which CCM workers now screen and remove.