<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>Does anyone know if The Cleaners is available to view in the US?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><div><font face="serif">Camille E. Acey</font></div><div><font face="serif"><br></font></div><font face="serif"><font dir="auto">"</font><span style="font-size: 16px; text-indent: -30px;" dir="auto">Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." - Audre Lorde</span></font></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: misha rabinovich <mishawagon@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 9/26/18 9:05 AM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: p.y.georgiadou@utwente.nl </div><div>Cc: themaintainers@lists.stevens.edu </div><div>Subject: Re: [Themaintainers] The Cleaners </div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr">Hello Folks,<div><br></div><div>There is an artist team Eva and Eva Mattes who have a series of artworks & installations about the dark content moderators on YouTube. These are in the forms of installation and even a short video trailer (if you scroll down) where they use the actual words of the moderators but anonymize the voice & visuals. Anyway I'm not necessarily an advocate of their projects in general but this installation is quite interesting and topical to this thread. <a href="http://0100101110101101.org/dark-content/">http://0100101110101101.org/dark-content/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Misha</div><div><div>__</div><div><br></div><div>Misha Rabinovich</div><div>Assistant Professor of Interactive Media</div><div>University of Massachusetts Lowell</div><div>Art & Design Department Mahoney Hall </div><div>870 Broadway St., Suite 1, Office 216B</div><div>Lowell, MA 01854-3088 </div><div>p: (978) 934 - 5792</div><div><a href="http://misharabinovich.com">misharabinovich.com</a></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 12:26 AM <<a href="mailto:p.y.georgiadou@utwente.nl">p.y.georgiadou@utwente.nl</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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short for discussing with students. I wonder whether the protocols of inappropriate content categories are available somewhere, or are kept completely under wraps. Or are the protocols themselves inappropriate content?!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">“The Cleaners” was broadcast on French TV a few weeks ago. A great film indeed, though the setting is a bit disturbing, since most of the footage is a reconstitution, as well as the ‘cases’ that we follow from one side of the Web (agencies,
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<p class="MsoNormal">Before this one, about a year ago, another documentary, which was shot in a real “moderation factory”, was published on Vimeo : <a href="https://vimeo.com/239108604" target="_blank">The Moderators</a>. It’s shorter (which is great if you want to show it
to your students), doesn’t address all aspects of the problem, but is somehow more “telling”, especially in regards to the work conditions (it notably shows a few training sessions). A nice addition to explore what some of the maintenance of the Web takes…<u></u><u></u></p>
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internet content :<span class="m_4081997065154565008apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/the-cleaners-sundance-documentary-review-dirt-on-social-media/" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">https://www.cnet.com/news/the-cleaners-sundance-documentary-review-dirt-on-social-media/</span></a><span class="m_4081997065154565008apple-converted-space"> </span>,
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<p class="MsoNormal">But we are also aware and interested in the many cases where Maintainers aren't well rewarded today. Andy and I are really inspired by Stephanie Hoopes and<span class="m_4081997065154565008apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.unitedwayalice.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">her
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the kind of domestic labor examined in the literature on social reproduction</span></a>. This includes a lot of care work obviously. And on that front, I've been inspired not only by Nancy Fraser's recent writings on care but also by<span class="m_4081997065154565008apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Forced-Care-Coercion-Caregiving-America/dp/0674064151" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">Evelyn
Nakano Glenn's book, Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America</span></a>, which does a great job especially with the gendered and racialized nature of the topic. <u></u><u></u></p>
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