Lucas Wright

The Gold Digger Was an Archvillain. Now She’s an Aspiration.

My (recently defended!) dissertation examines the fraught relationship between sugar dating and the platform economy. One key aspect of this tension is whether sugar dating more closely resembles hypergamy or sex work - an important linguistic distinction online. 1/3

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Trust and Safety Vendors: Looking Back and Forward <span>Trust and safety teams rely on the services of third-party vendors to carry out their work, and the market for these services is rapidly evolving. This es

In this book chapter, I argue that a new wave of start-ups are building crucial moderation infrastructure. I trace their history and describe how control of this layer could give a small number of companies outsized influence over the meaning of safety in practice. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....