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🗣️ 🔊 July 8th @ 8am PDT/5pm CET, we’re launching the Data Workers’ Inquiry: 15 data workers from 4 continents answer their own research questions in their chosen modality, ranging from comprehensive reports, to animated shorts, documentaries, zines, comic books, podcasts & more. I’ll moderate a panel with founders of the 1st African content moderators union, & @DAIR's Krystal Kauffman, lead organizer of @turkopticon.
Register @ data-workers.org/events/ where you’ll find the speakers’ series🧵 1/x
A flyer outlining the talk series: - All online. 8 - 10:30 am PT, 11am - 12:30 pm ET, 5-6:30 pm CET. - More info and registration: data-workers.org/events Talk series: - Sept. 23. Online. English with captioning What impact does content moderation have on workers’ mental health? Speakers: Sakine Bozorg, Fasica Gebrekidan, Botlhokwa Ranta, Krystal Kauffman Moderation: Milagros Miceli - Oct. 7. Online. German with simultaneous English translation Data work as a career? Professionalizing content moderation in Germany. Speakers: Anonymous, Data, Worker, Milagros Miceli Moderation: Laurenz Sachenbacher - Nov. 4. Online. English with captioning. Who else does data work? Speakers: John López (WGA), Tadhg Mac Eoghain (Guerrilla Media Collective), Arte es Ética, Alex Hanna Moderation: Milagros Miceli
A flyer of the Launch Event for the Data Workers Inquiry. At 8 am PT / 11 am EST / 5 pm CET there is the firt panel, called "What is the Data Workers' Inquiry +Q&A". 45 minutes later the data workers will be introduces and at last panel 2 called "How to do data workers organize in the face of exploitation + Q&A" will take place at 12 pm EST. It will be held online on zoom on the 8th of July. RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/data-workers.
A flyer outlining the talk series (part 1): - All online. 8 - 10:30 am PT, 11am - 12:30 pm ET, 5-6:30 pm CET. - More info and registration: data-workers.org/events Talk series: - July 8. Online. English with captioning. How do data workers organize in the face of exploitation? Speakers: Mophat Okinyi, Richard Mathenge, Krystal Kauffman Moderation: Adio Dinika - July 22. Online. English with captioning What does precarity look like for data workers? Speakers: Yasser Alrayes, Roukaya Al Hammada, Wilington Shitawa, Adio Dinika Moderation: Krystal Kauffman - August 26. Online. Spanish with simultaneous English translation What grievances are specific to data work in Latin America? Speakers: Oskarina Fuentes, Alex Chávez, Camilla Salim Wagner Moderation: Milagros Miceli - Sept. 9. Online. English with captioning What training do data workers need and what do they get instead? Speakers: Fasica Gebrekidan, Anonymous Worker, Yasser Alrayes, Laurenz Sachenbacher Moderation: Krystal Kauffman

Events – Data Workers Inquiry

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We'll highlight each researcher throughout the week but I'll start with two.

Fasica Gebrekidan worked as a content moderator for Meta via Sama in Nairobi, Kenya for 2 years, until she was laid off for attempting to form a data workers’ union. Her heartbreaking report is on the unimaginable toll of both experiencing #TigrayGenocide AND moderating content related to it. Imagine. She discusses mental health issues and drug abuse.

You can download her report at data-workers.org/fasica/

Content moderation: The harrowing, traumatizing job that leaves many African data workers with mental health issues and drug dependency. By Fasica Berhane Gebrekidan. With a black and white sketch of a silhouette of what seems like a woman's body.
#TigrayGenocide
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