Content moderator: the 21st century hazardous job
2024
29
27-30
social media ; digitalisation ; occupational risks ; mental health ; mental disease ; trade union document
Occupational risks
English
"Are hazardous jobs a thing of the past in Europe? In the age of artificial intelligence, we may need to start thinking differently about what such a job looks like, focusing less on the lungs or the heart and more on the mind. There is a rapidly expanding industry in Europe in which there is growing evidence that mental ill-health is a systemic problem for workers. That industry is content moderation. And a network of workers, researchers and politicians are catching on and fighting back."
Digital;Paper
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