Salon Series: Sarah T. Roberts
DataX Salons are informal conversations for attendees to become acquainted with a diverse group of UCLA data science, social science, physical and life science, and humanities scholars working broadly across issues at the intersection of data and society.
When: Fri. March 10, 2023 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. PST
About the speaker: Dr. Sarah T. Roberts is an Associate Professor in UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and Gender Studies. She also serves as the Director of Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). In January of this year, Dr. Roberts was named one of the 100 Most Brilliant Women in AI Ethics. She is an expert in the areas of internet culture, social media, digital labor, and the intersections of media and technology. In her book, Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media, she coined the term "commercial content moderation" (CCM) to describe the job paid content moderators do to regulate legal guidelines and standards. It is the first book-length ethnographic study of the work commercial content moderators.