- status update: social media at crisis point
- “The Cleaners,” commercial content moderation documentary, airs on PBS’s Independent Lens
- Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media now available for pre-order
- First(?) Academic Job to Reference “Content Moderation” Appears at Michigan
- Google brings AI tool to arsenal in anti-child sexual exploitation fight – for whose benefit?
- Update: ARTE’s Trailer Not Removed, But the Confusion Is the Story
- “The Cleaners,” Cleaned – Google’s YouTube Removes Trailer for Content Moderation Documentary, Citing “Shocking Content”
- EFF Pioneer Award 2018
- Forty Years of Dr. Linda C. Smith – A Tribute to Her Living Legacy
- Carnegie Fellows 2018 – An Honor
- No, YouTube is not a library – and why it matters
- Researching ICT Companies: A Field Guide for Civil Society Researchers (and everyone else!)
- New article: Digital detritus: ‘Error’ and the logic of opacity in social media content moderation
- Announcing “All Things in Moderation,” Dec. 6-7, 2017 at UCLA
- PRI Science Friday: The Invisible Humans Who Sanitize the Internet
- CCM in the Atlantic connects phenomenon to key questions of democracy
- What is content moderation? What is CCM?
- Microsoft sued by Commercial Content Moderators (#CCM) in first-of-its-kind case
- At UCLA
- CCM on “The Agenda”
- Spotlight on “Analog Gaming in Libraries”
- Information Privacy and Libraries: Alison Macrina Visits FIMS
- Bowie
- “It’s not Science Fiction”: Hidden Labor, and Trauma, of USAF Drone Pilots
- Now available: New Publications on CCM; Google Glass, Race and Class; LIS, Diversity as Social Justice and Calls to Action;Digital Literacy
- Surplus3: Labour and the Digital – Toronto, October 20th, 2015
- Tak, København!
- Fall in Europe: COST Action in Estonia and University of Copenhagen
- Digital Labor Video Series (and a few updates)
- WIRED Publishes Piece on Commercial Content Moderation (CCM) in Philippines; US
- CAPAL 2015: Academic Librarianship and Critical Practice Keynote Speaker
- Digital Labor: Sweatshops, Picket Lines, Barricades [#dl14]
- In Error, The University of Illinois Stands Alone: A Letter to the Board of Trustees
- Reinstate Steven Salaita–a letter from US scholars who have traveled in Palestine
- Steven Salaita: The University of Illinois Is Not an Island
- Steven Salaita: L’université d’Illinois n’est pas une île
- The Battle for Justice in Evanston? Abunimah Book Talk Back On at Evanston Public Library
- A Letter to Evanston Public Library on the Cancellation of Ali Abunimah’s Book Talk
- A Visit to Palestine
- Interview on CBC Ontario Morning
- FIMS CLA-SLA 2014 Conference: Humans of New Librarianship
- CCM at UCLA: Feb. 20th talk at GSEIS
- Exciting CFP: DIGITAL LABOR: SWEATSHOPS, PICKET LINES, AND BARRICADES, the New School, NYC, NOVEMBER 14-16, 2014
- Resist Mass Surveillance
- Learning to Love: Human-Machine Affect in Spike Jonez’ “Her”
- The Turning Tide: The ASA and Call for Academic Boycott of Israel
- Mr. Mandela
- Pix or It Didn’t Happen: It’s on You to Prove Your Abuse
- NPR’s All Things Considered: Commercial Content Moderation (CCM) and the Internet Shadows
- “The Trouble with Ethics Tests” Online at the Chronicle of Higher Ed
- Congratulations to Dr. Miriam Sweeney!
- The Trouble with “Ethics”
- IAMCR 13 in Dublin – A Report from Our Panel
- Transition: Joining FIMS at the University of Western Ontario
- NCSA Mosaic is 20
- “How about a nice game of chess?” An Interview with Stephanie Ricker Schulte, author of “Cached”
- Chester Roberts November 1997 – April 18, 2013
- IAMCR Dublin
- I Made That!
- At Year’s End, Living My Technology Politics – or Trying
- Fall Updates: IIT Lecture in “Defining Boundaries and Goals in the Digital Humanities” Series
- Garfield Dissertation Award
- Obscurity through Transparency: Facebook releases infographic that reveals little – by design?
- 4th ICTs and Society: Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society, Uppsala May 2 – May 4, 2012
- “Out of the Attic and into the Stacks: The Feminism in LIS Unconference” at UW-M – and Why We Desperately Need It
- Social Media’s Dirty Work: Contextualizing the Facebook Screening Controversy
- Crowdsourcing Dataviz for the #Occupy Movement
- HASTAC V, Dec 1-3, Ann Arbor, MI
- The Wisconsin Uprising Archive and the Importance of Digital Media Curation in Resistance
- 1:10.
- From AoIR 12: Cheeseheads, Rise Up!
- Steve Jobs, 1955-2011. Visionary.
- Bodies and Technologies in Resistance: The Wisconsin Union Protests, from the Ground
- Questioning “The Cloud”: Andrejevic’s “Surveillance in the Digital Enclosure”
- WikiLeaks Debate: A “Transparency Activist” Takes Issue with Assange; WikiLeaks
- Eden Medina: “The Slipperiness of Socio-technical Engineering”
- AoIR 11.0 Roundup
- “Hej!” from Göteborg – AoIR 11
- [CFP] “Cyborg Subjects: Discourses on Digital Culture” Journal and Website
- [CFP] Proposed Edited Book about “Dark Leisure”
- Faculty position, Information Policy, Department of Information Science, Cornell University
- Assistant Professor, Digital Environments/Digital Humanities, University of Michigan
- Some Musings on Labor in “The Culture Industry”
- Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Program in Comparative Media Studies, MIT
- AoIR 11.0 Gothenburg, Sweden Schedule Available
- Three tenure-line positions, Communication, Culture & Technology, Georgetown
- Getting to Grips with Video Gaming’s Past, Present and Future: Exploring “Platform Studies”
- The Vast World of Vast Narratives, Fandom and Participatory Culture
- Digital Labor, Cold-War Roots
- Call for Papers: The Third Graduate Student Conference on the History of American Capitalism: “Capitalism in Action”, Harvard University, March 4th-6th, 2011
- Call: History of the Present, a new journal of critical history
- Asst. Professor of Media Studies, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Media and Cultural Studies, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, Rutgers
- Reading Herbert Schiller: “Data Deprivation” in Information Inequality: the Deepening Social Crisis in America, 1996.
- Darnton, Robert. “Google and the New Digital Future.” New York Review of Books December 17, 2009.
Sarah T. Roberts | The Illusion of Volition
Critical inquiry and reflection at the intersection of our analog and digital worlds.
