Dr. Carolina Are joins FLP for a lecture that aims to unravel the algorithmic bias against nudity and, in turn, sex work…
CLASS DESCRIPTION
What can pole dancing teach tech companies about content governance?
Dr Carolina Are, (a.k.a. @bloggeronpole) is a London-based Italian researcher, activist and blogger with a PhD in content moderation who has received direct apologies from Instagram about shadowbanning and led international protests and campaigns against online censorship. As a result, she has published some of the first studies on Instagram’s shadowban of pole dancing, and continues to publish work on de-platforming, online abuse and content moderation.
In this talk, she will discuss algorithmic bias against nudity, its relationship with the patriarchy and with whorephobia, sharing some insights from her latest studies looking at mass reporting of sex positive activists and sex workers, as well as with tips, gossip and concerns about Big Tech’s power over our bodies.
ABOUT OUR LECTURER
Dr Carolina Are, aka @bloggeronpole, has a PhD in content moderation and is currently working as Innovation Fellow at Northumbria University’s Centre for Digital Citizens. Following her own experiences of censorship on Instagram and TikTok, she has been researching on algorithmic bias against nudity and sexuality on social media, and has published the first study on the shadowbanning of pole dancing in Feminist Media Studies. Her work has been published in Social Media + Society, Media, Culture & Society and Porn Studies, and it has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Conversation, the BBC, Wired, the MIT Technology Review. She’s behind various petitions, campaigns and studies to fight for more equal moderation of nudity and sexuality on social media, having been one of the founders of #EveryBODYVisible in 2019 and having created a recent petition against Instagram’s terms of use that was signed by over 100,000 people.
Instagram: @bloggeronpole
Website: Bloggeronpole.com
UPCOMING SESSIONS WITH THE FEMINIST LECTURE PROGRAM
Monday 16th September
Kitty Underhill (she/her)
Where do Flaws Come From?: Bellies, Bodies and the Social Construction of Imperfection
Monday 23rd September
N.A. Kimber (she/her) and K.E. Donoghue-Stanford (she/her)
Death and the Maiden: Femininity in the Gothic
Monday 30th September
Carolina Hades (she/her)
Pole Dancing Against the Algorithm
Monday 7th October
Janine Francois (she/they)
Black {Gendered} Space Time: From the Heavens to Outer Space
Monday 14th October
Parumveer Walia (he/him)
Staged Bodies: Performativity in Feminist Photography
Monday 21st October
Isobel Atacus (she/they)
Eva Hesse: Imagining the Unruly
Monday 28th October
Gudrun Filipska (she/her)
Feminism and Zombie Culture
Monday 4th November
Anna Titov (she/her)
Cyborgs, Transcorporeality and Volatile Bodies: Ecofeminist Theories of Embodiment
Monday 11th November
COMING SOON
Monday 18th November
Melissa Baksh (she/her)
Whitewashed? Whiteness and Femininity in Art History
Monday 25th November
Dr. Noam Yadin Evron (she/her)
Hildegard of Bingen: Mystic, Artist, Composer, Pioneer
Monday 2nd December
COMING SOON
Monday 9th December
Baylee Woodley (they/them)
Medieval Femmes: Queer Femininities in Medieval England
Monday 16th December
Summer Lee (she/her)
The Incendiary History of Red Lingerie
RECORDING
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