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Content creators with marginalized identities are disproportionately affected by shadowbanning on social media platforms, which impacts their economic prospects online. Through a diary study and interviews with eight marginalized content creators who are women, pole dancers, plus size, and/or LGBTQIA+, this paper examines how content creators with marginalized identities experience shadowbanning. We highlight the labor and economic inequalities of shadowbanning, and the resulting invisible online labor that marginalized creators often must perform. We identify three types of invisible labor that marginalized content creators engage in to mitigate shadowbanning and sustain their online presence: mental and emotional labor, misdirected labor, and community labor. We conclude that even though marginalized content creators engaged in cross-platform collaborative labor and personal mental/emotional labor to mitigate the impacts of shadowbanning, it was insufficient to prevent uncertainty and economic precarity created by algorithmic opacity and ambiguity.
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Children watching (and seeing) each other: A lesson on Black aliveness.
In the post-COVID era, many early educational stakeholders have expressed worryover children9s loss of Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) opportunities, with hopes to correctfor this through formal instruction. However, in this paper we invited children to interpret avideo of their own play and we observed the emotional labor that they engaged in, especiallythrough their ability to take on the perspective of other group members. This emotional labor,which we call relationality, appeared to be especially humanizing for Quentin, a Black boy, andthe ways that he played and engaged with others. This work hopes to recognize the SELresources that children already bring to school, and offer an example of how these resourcesshow their ability to see one another.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2101356
- PAR ID:
- 10624985
- Publisher / Repository:
- International Society of the Learning Sciences
- Date Published:
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 253-260
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Location:
- Helsinki, Finland
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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