Custodians of the internet : platforms, content moderation, and the hidden decisions that shape social media / Tarleton Gillespie.

"Most users want their Twitter feed, Facebook page, and YouTube comments to be free of harassment and porn. Whether faced with 'fake news' or livestreamed violence, 'content moderators'--who censor or promote user-posted content--have never been more important. This is espec...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Gillespie, Tarleton (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • All platforms moderate
  • The myth of the neutral platform
  • Community guidelines, or the sound of no
  • Three impactful solutions to the problem of scale
  • The human labor of moderation
  • Facebook, breastfeeding, and living in suspension
  • To remove or to filter
  • What platforms are, and what they should be.