Areas of Expertise:
social media | commercial content moderation | internet culture | information policy
Sarah T. Roberts, Ph.D. is an associate professor at UCLA (Gender Studies, Information Studies, Labor Studies), specializing in Internet and social media policy, infrastructure, politics and culture, and the intersection of media, technology and society. She is the faculty director and co-founder of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2), co-director of the Minderoo Initiative on Technology & Power, and a research associate of the Oxford Internet Institute. Informed by feminist Science and Technology Studies perspectives, Roberts is keenly interested in the way power, geopolitics and economics play out on and via the internet, reproducing, reifying and exacerbating global inequities and social injustice.
Roberts is available to do interviews in Spanish and French.
Media Contact
Elizabeth Kivowitz
310-466-8769
ekivowitz@stratcomm.ucla.edu
John McDonald
310-880-5332
jmcdonald@gseis.ucla.edu