Week 7

Content moderation

Who deals with all of social media’s garbage?

  1. Chotiner, Isaac. “The Underworld of Online Content Moderation.” The New Yorker, July 5, 2019. https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-underworld-of-online-content-moderation. (article, 11 mins.)
  2. The Cleaners, 2018. (video, 88 mins.) This video is available on BruinLearn. On the lefthand sidebar, click on the “UCLA Media Reserves” menu item. Then select the “Video Reserves” tab. (View screenshot.)
  3. Perrigo, Billy. “The $2 Per Hour Workers Who Made ChatGPT Safer.” Time, January 18, 2023. https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/. (article, 12 mins.)

In-class activities

  1. “See with Your Ears” (video)
  2. J-cuts and L-cuts (video)
  3. “150 African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to Unionize at Landmark Nairobi Meeting”
  4. Moderator Mayhem activity
  5. Section 230 activity
  6. Basic Audio Editing in Premiere (tutorial)