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Department of Education 2023 Information Sessions

Department of Information Studies Programs

Department of Information Studies 2023 Information Sessions

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Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (c2i2)

Department of Information Studies

Digital Labor

Information Policy

Internet Culture

Learning

Library Studies

Media and Technology

Professional Development

Research Methods

Teaching

Sarah Roberts

Assistant Professor of Information Studies

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

Library and information organizational management

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.

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.