Behind the Screen¶
Roberts, S. T. (2019). Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media. Yale University Press.
Cited by¶
1 citation across 1 artifact.
Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.
Primes¶
- Mediator Availability Constraint
- Quality assurance and human review: In any system requiring human judgment (content moderation, hiring review, grant evaluation, loan approval), the human-expert capacity bounds the system throughput, a constraint Roberts (2019) documents at scale in her ethnography of commercial content moderators reviewing thousands of items per worker per day.
This sourceEthnographic study of commercial content moderation; documents how human-judgment-bound decision systems (over 100,000 moderators evaluating thousands of items per worker per day) face an irreducible mediator-throughput constraint that automation can only partially relieve.
- Quality assurance and human review: In any system requiring human judgment (content moderation, hiring review, grant evaluation, loan approval), the human-expert capacity bounds the system throughput, a constraint Roberts (2019) documents at scale in her ethnography of commercial content moderators reviewing thousands of items per worker per day.
Verification¶
Does it exist? Not checked yet. This entry carries no identifier to resolve. It was extracted from the citation as written in the article, normalized, and deduplicated against the rest of the registry.
Does it back the claim? Not recorded. The single citation of this work carries no recorded support check.
Support is checked per citation rather than per work — the same source can be cited soundly in one article and wrongly in another. Per-citation recording began recently, so a citation with no recorded check is a gap in the record rather than evidence it went unchecked.
See how references were verified.
Registry ID ref:08aeeb366d17 · see in the full table