Alexander Monea
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 298311 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alexander Monea |
| NOMBRES | Alexander |
| APELLIDO | Monea |
| FIRMA | MONEA A |
| AFILIACIONES | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9081-0642 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Sexual Content Moderation
Despite popular understandings of the internet teeming with pornography and offering safe harbor for LGBTQIA+ content, social media platforms are cracking down on sexual expression and sex work online. This panel examines the role that content moderation and platform governance play in censoring sexual expression online and the communities that engage in it. It documents the impact that censorship, banning, shadowbanning, and demonetization have …
Sex as/and/on Social Media
Sex is central to the internet. It exists everywhere online and yet is everywhere constrained, sanitized, normalized, and invisibilized. This panel will investigate the ways in which sex seeps, spills, and oozes across boundaries, both online and off, despite efforts to control and limit its impact beyond consumer capitalism. Author 1 examines online ‘gooning’ communities, oriented around prolonged masturbation sessions to multiple streams of por…
Cruising Tiktok
This paper examines crackdowns on queer content on TikTok and creative responses of content creators to circumvent biased content moderation and cisheteronormative censorship. The first portion of the paper demonstrates TikTok’s recurrent cisheteronormative biases in content moderation decisions and examines select instances of LGBTQ+ content that has been censored on the platform. It also works to situate this within a broader trend of LGBTQ+ ce…
De-escalating ‘dataveillance’ in schools
T. Philip Nichols and Alexander Monea explore the spread of data-driven surveillance (i.e., dataveillance) technologies in schools, which are increasingly used as a strategy for mitigating safety risks. They argue that the sense of security schools derive from these technologies often comes at the cost of students’ actual well-being and privacy. Drawing on research with teachers and administrators, they highlight several ethical challenges datave…
I know it when I see it
This article analyzes Google SafeSearch's use of machine vision to automate censorship. I first provide a history of SafeSearch, followed by an overview of Google's machine vision system and the datasets it is built atop. Next I examine its political implications from four perspectives. First, I demonstrate how English-language semantic biases about sexuality are embedded in WordNet's ontology. Second, I outline how ImageNet embeds the biases of …
Digital Closet
The Digital Closet
This presentation draws on data from my forthcoming book with MIT Press to demonstrate how heteronormative and cisnormative bias pervade Silicon Valley culture, get embedded in benchmark datasets and machine learning algorithms, and get formalized in company policies and labor practices surrounding content moderation. The presentation begins with an examination of workplace culture at Google, gaining insights from Department of Labor investigatio…
Black Software
Reviewed by: Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter by Charlton D. McIlwain Pavithra Suresh (bio) and Alexander Monea (bio) Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter By Charlton D. McIlwain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 260. Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter By Charlton D. McIlwain. Oxf…
Beyond the Possible
It is difWcult to imagine an indeWnite extension of the manifold and overlapping contradictions of contemporary global capitalism. The desires and dreams of peoples are amassed and quantiWed through patented data analytics of private Wrms and speculated on as projections of consumption and global labor productivity. 1 The local use- values of indigenous communities are enclosed through industry- backed nature conservancy policies and captured in …
The Graphing of Difference
This article offers a critical examination of contemporary graph databases, such as Google's Knowledge Graph, from the perspective of media theory, philosophy of difference, and epistemology. It argues that the fundamental data structure of the 'triple,' in essence a subject-predicate-object statement, constitutes a problem immanent to the database itself. The article begins with a brief meditation on numerical mediation before examining the emer…
The Graphing of Difference
This article offers a critical examination of contemporary graph databases, such as Google's Knowledge Graph, from the perspective of media theory, philosophy of difference, and epistemology. It argues that the fundamental data structure of the 'triple,' in essence a subject-predicate-object statement, constitutes a problem immanent to the database itself. The article begins with a brief meditation on numerical mediation before examining the emer…
Beyond the Possible
It is difWcult to imagine an indeWnite extension of the manifold and overlapping contradictions of contemporary global capitalism. The desires and dreams of peoples are amassed and quantiWed through patented data analytics of private Wrms and speculated on as projections of consumption and global labor productivity. 1 The local use- values of indigenous communities are enclosed through industry- backed nature conservancy policies and captured in …
The Graphing of Difference
This article offers a critical examination of contemporary graph databases, such as Google's Knowledge Graph, from the perspective of media theory, philosophy of difference, and epistemology. It argues that the fundamental data structure of the 'triple,' in essence a subject-predicate-object statement, constitutes a problem immanent to the database itself. The article begins with a brief meditation on numerical mediation before examining the emer…
The Digital Closet
This presentation draws on data from my forthcoming book with MIT Press to demonstrate how heteronormative and cisnormative bias pervade Silicon Valley culture, get embedded in benchmark datasets and machine learning algorithms, and get formalized in company policies and labor practices surrounding content moderation. The presentation begins with an examination of workplace culture at Google, gaining insights from Department of Labor investigatio…
Black Software
Reviewed by: Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter by Charlton D. McIlwain Pavithra Suresh (bio) and Alexander Monea (bio) Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter By Charlton D. McIlwain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 260. Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter By Charlton D. McIlwain. Oxf…
De-escalating ‘dataveillance’ in schools
T. Philip Nichols and Alexander Monea explore the spread of data-driven surveillance (i.e., dataveillance) technologies in schools, which are increasingly used as a strategy for mitigating safety risks. They argue that the sense of security schools derive from these technologies often comes at the cost of students’ actual well-being and privacy. Drawing on research with teachers and administrators, they highlight several ethical challenges datave…
I know it when I see it
This article analyzes Google SafeSearch's use of machine vision to automate censorship. I first provide a history of SafeSearch, followed by an overview of Google's machine vision system and the datasets it is built atop. Next I examine its political implications from four perspectives. First, I demonstrate how English-language semantic biases about sexuality are embedded in WordNet's ontology. Second, I outline how ImageNet embeds the biases of …
Digital Closet
Cruising Tiktok
This paper examines crackdowns on queer content on TikTok and creative responses of content creators to circumvent biased content moderation and cisheteronormative censorship. The first portion of the paper demonstrates TikTok’s recurrent cisheteronormative biases in content moderation decisions and examines select instances of LGBTQ+ content that has been censored on the platform. It also works to situate this within a broader trend of LGBTQ+ ce…
Sexual Content Moderation
Despite popular understandings of the internet teeming with pornography and offering safe harbor for LGBTQIA+ content, social media platforms are cracking down on sexual expression and sex work online. This panel examines the role that content moderation and platform governance play in censoring sexual expression online and the communities that engage in it. It documents the impact that censorship, banning, shadowbanning, and demonetization have …
Sex as/and/on Social Media
Sex is central to the internet. It exists everywhere online and yet is everywhere constrained, sanitized, normalized, and invisibilized. This panel will investigate the ways in which sex seeps, spills, and oozes across boundaries, both online and off, despite efforts to control and limit its impact beyond consumer capitalism. Author 1 examines online ‘gooning’ communities, oriented around prolonged masturbation sessions to multiple streams of por…
Computer Science (6 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (3 obras) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 obras) · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (3 obras) · Moderation (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras) · World Wide Web (3 obras) · Epistemology (2 obras)