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Sarah Roberts

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Assistant Professor of Information Studies

Department: Information Studies
GSE&IS 211
300 North Charles E. Young Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521
Phone: (310) 206-2644
Email: sarah.roberts@ucla.edu
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Keywords: Southeast Asia

Education
Ph.D., Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A., Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A., French, Spanish; Certificate of Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Teaching & Research Interests
Information work and workers
Library and information organizational management
IT infrastructure and planning
Social media and the Internet
Digital economy
Internet governance and policy,
Digital ethics
Analog gaming

Select Publications

Roberts, S.T. (2016). Digital refuse: Canadian garbage, commercial content moderation and the global circulation of social media’s waste. Wi: Journal of Mobile Media, 10(1), p. 1-18. http://wi.mobilities.ca/digitalrefuse/

Roberts, S.T. and Noble, S.U. (2016). Empowered to name, inspired to act: Social responsibility and diversity as calls to action in the LIS context. Library Trends, 64(3), p. 512-532. DOI: 10.1353/lib.2016.0008

Roberts, S.T. (2016). In/visibility. In Letters & Handshakes (Eds.), Surplus3: Labour and the Digital. Toronto: Letters & Handshakes.

Roberts, S.T. (2016). Commercial content moderation: Digital laborers’ dirty work. In Noble, S.U. and Tynes, B. (Eds.), The intersectional internet: Race, sex, class and culture online. New York: Peter Lang.

Noble, S. & Roberts, S. T. (2016). Through Google-Colored Glass(es): Design, Emotion, Class, and Wearables as Commodity and Control. In S. Tettegah & S. Noble (Eds.), Emotions, Technology & Design. pp. 187-210. San Diego: Elsevier Academic Press.