Yoel Roth is Twitter’s head of site integrity. Roth spearheaded the social media company’s new fact-checking initiative that has been criticized by President Donald Trump. The president has said. I work at Twitter. I have a PhD in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania, studying privacy and safety on gay social networks.
Annenberg School for Communication
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Ph.D., Communication Apple wallpaper free download for mac.
Dissertation: Gay Data
Yoel Roth Msn
Annenberg School for Communication
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
M.A., Communication
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA
B.A. with Highest Honors, Political Science and Film and Media Studies
Twitter, Head of Site Integrity
Twitter, Sr. Manager, Trust & Safety
Twitter, Manager, Trust & Safety
Twitter, Sr. Product Trust Partner
Twitter, Product Trust Partner
Harvard University, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Consultant, Dangerous Speech Project
Twitter, Intern, Trust & Safety
Apple, Mac Genius
‘No overly suggestive photos of any kind’: Content management policies and the policing of self in gay digital communities. Communication Culture & Critique, 8(3): 414-432.
Abstract: This article examines the policies and practices that manage user-submitted content on three gay-targeted social networking services. While managing user-generated content is a common practice across social networking services, the policies implemented on gay-targeted services tend to be distinctively restrictive in scope and highly specific in formulation. This analysis identifies the technical, legal, and social affordances that authorized the creation of these policies. Framing content management policies as derived from the technical rules of platforms like Apple’s App Store obscures normative judgments about proper self-presentation and community formation. Identifying the normative character of these policies requires an analysis rooted simultaneously in technology studies, media policy, and subcultural identity politics.
Zero feet away: The digital geography of gay social media. Journal of Homosexuality (Special Issue: ‘Cartographies’), 62. In press.
Locating the 'Scruff guy': Theorizing body and space in gay geosocial media. International Journal of Communication, 8.
Abstract: This article offers a critical examination of the smartphone application Scruff, a gay geosocial networking service targeted primarily at bears that boasts a user base of over five million individuals in more than 180 countries. Using a case study of gay geosocial networking, the article argues for a theoretical reworking of the relationship between embodiment, space, and digital media. Geosocial services like Scruff, by virtue of their emphasis on bodies and locations that can be accessed offline, complicate notions that online interactions are displaced, disembodied, and ethereal. By layering a virtual, but still spatialized, network of users atop existing physical locations, Scruff straddles the online-offline divide and indicates how bodies, places, and identities are discursively constructed through the interplay of virtual and physical experience.
‘No fats, no femmes, no privacy?’ in Digital Media 2: Transformatiosn in Human Communication (eds. P. Messaris and L. Humphreys). Forthcoming.
Abstract: Racism, ageism, body shaming, and femmephobia are common tropes in user profiles on gay-targeted social networking sites. The blog Douchebags of Grindr is dedicated to the task of chronicling this perceived misbehavior, posting screenshots of offensive profiles for public view and ridicule. Do websites like Douchebags of Grindr breach the expected sociotechnical boundaries of gay social networking services, decontextualizing and resharing personal information without permission? Or do they serve a critical role in organically refining the boundaries of acceptable conduct within online gay communities? This chapter examines how personal data flows across networked platforms, suggesting that flows of personal information like Douchebags of Grindr play a critical part in allowing users to negotiate standards of behavior in networked environments. While I stress the social role played by these vernacular user practices, I offer specific sociotechnical solutions that may mitigate the reputational and privacy risks created by Douchebags of Grindr.
International Communication Association Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico
No fats, no femmes, no privacy? Interplatform data flows and the Douchebags of Grindr
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Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication lecture series: Creative Digital Practices, Philadelphia, PA
The selfie police: Content management and its discontents [YouTube]
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Association of Internet Researchers IR15, Daegu, South Korea
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Technics and normativity in social network content management policies