Dr. Carolina Are, (a.k.a. @ bloggeronpole) is a London-based Italian researcher, activist and blogger with a PhD in content moderation. An Innovation Fellow at Northumbria University’s Centre for Digital Citizens, Dr Are is currently leading a project at the intersection between online abuse and online censorship, which she has experience of both as an academic and as a social media creator herself. Dr Are has received direct apologies from Instagram about shadowbanning and led international protests and champaigns against online censorship. As a result, she has published some of the first studies on Instagram’s shadowban of pole dancing. In this talk, Dr Are 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. You will leave this talk with new ideas about what pole dancing can teach tech companies about content governance as well as with tips, gossip and concerns about Big Tech’s power over our bodies.
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