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RAE JEREZA, PhD
Anthropologist

RAE (THEY/THEM) IS A NON-BINARY, FILIPINO-AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST WORKING IN NORTH AMERICA.

Their research is at the intersection of race, digital technologies, and digital labor in the U.S.

 

Their book project explores how "online hate speech" is a political preoccupation that tells us something about American race thinking through narratives about what technologies do.

 

They currently teach classes in linguistic anthropology and race and racism at American University.

Ongoing Research Topics:

Understandings of Tourette's on a youth-led Discord server.

 

The organizational practices at Facebook content moderation sites.

 

Institutional narratives about racism and the far-right in the US

 

Anti-trans organizing and its relationship to white supremacy

2022

'"I'm not this person': Racism, Content Moderator 

and Protecting and Denying Voice Online"

New Media and Society

"Social Support in Digital Patronage: OnlyFans Adult Content Creators as Online Community"

CHI Proceedings

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PEER-REVIEWED
PUBLICATIONS

Digital Labor, Content Moderation, Race, Online Sex Work, and Ethnographic Research with

Far-right Adherents

Ongoing Projects

Fighting Hate: Online Hate Speech as

American Race-Thinking

Book Project

“Does Anyone Else…? Narratives of Tourette’s on a Youth-Led Discord Server.”

with Josh Reno

“Beyond Content and Wellness:

How Organizational Relationships

Shape Commercial Content

Moderators’ Wellbeing"

with Jie Cai and Aashka Patel

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Forthcoming Publications

"Ethnographic Empathy and Research Ethics as Methodological Whiteness"

with Cat Tebaldi

In The Ethics of Researching the Far-Right

Outside of work, they enjoy rock climbing, playing piano, Magic The Gathering, D&D, cycling, horror, and hanging out with their

cats Boopy and Christmas Boy.

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