Reading the report—shd I call it that?—I kept thinking of Bataille: the impact of facing up to, or facing down images of extreme violence, sexuality, or sexual violence. Bataille’s contemplation of the image of the 100 cuts (so-called). But without the space or time for contemplation and the creation of meaning or the experience of the lack of it, the experience of the content moderator can only be numbing and deeply damaging. Like Alex in A Clockwork Orange after he has been subjected to aversion therapy. But without the personal melodrama. I can only wonder what the average longevity in their job is of the content moderator. Wd the digital natives fare any better than the digital immigrants who have had experience of “the real”?
Keith Sanborn > On Jan 27, 2018, at 7:01 PM, Morlock Elloi <morlockel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Agree. It's about machine-mediated 'socializing', not about who runs it. > > As I mentioned earlier, open sourcing/democratizing the dystopia is not > solving anything - it might even make it worse. > > >> On 1/27/18, 14:24, Florian Cramer wrote: >> Thanks for sharing this. None of the issues described in this write-up >> can be blamed on the corporate ownership of the currently popular social >> media. If people used Open Source, community-owned and community-run >> social media instead (like, for example, Mastodon or diaspora), there >> would be the same problems or worse. > > > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
