Research Annotator

• Conduct continuous, systematic annotation of social media content across platforms including TikTok, X, Instagram, and Reddit.
• Analyze textual, visual, and multimodal content to identify implicit meanings, indirect references, and rhetorical strategies.
• Contribute to the iterative refinement of coding schemes and annotation guidelines.
• Produce analytical memos and structured documentation to support classifier development.

This role directly contributes to building detection infrastructure that identifies how hate circulates, adapts, and normalizes in digital environments, enabling platforms, policymakers, and civil society to counter digital hate in real time.

• MA or PhD student (or completed degree) in Linguistics, Discourse Studies, Semiotics, Visual Studies, Media Studies, Hate Studies, History, Political Science, or related field.
• Demonstrated experience with qualitative content analysis, discourse-analytical methods, and mixed methods research.
• High awareness of implicit, coded, and context-dependent forms of hate speech in text and imagery.
• Native or near-native English proficiency with strong language sensitivity.

20–30 hours per week · $25 USD per hour · Hired directly by AddressHate.

AddressHate is a public interest technology company at the intersection of research, AI, and policy, building detection infrastructure and intelligence tools to help understand and counter digital hate in real time.