Creator Wellbeing, Burnout and Online Harassment
Sustaining a public life online: the job demands-resources view of creator work, burnout and algorithmic pressure, mental health, comparison and parasocial pressures, sustainable schedules and breaks, money stress, online harassment, doxxing and operational security, moderation, federal and state legal options including the TAKE IT DOWN Act, physical safety, support networks and a personal sustainability and safety plan.
CRE-350 Year 3 3 credits 12 lessons · 5 h 19 min
Offered by HSM University · Content Creation
This is the American version of this course. See the Canadian version.
What you'll learn
- Describe the roles and pressures of creator work and use the job demands-resources model to analyze wellbeing risks
- Recognize the signs and causes of burnout, including algorithmic pressure, and audit and rebalance a creator workload
- Explain how comparison, public feedback and parasocial relationships affect mental health, and know when and how to seek help
- Design a sustainable schedule with content buffers, batching, boundaries, rest and planned breaks communicated to the audience
- Reduce money stress with income tracking, emergency funds, diversified revenue and planning for lean months
- Identify the main forms of online harassment and their effects, and respond with a documented, proportionate plan
- Protect personal information against doxxing through operational security, metadata hygiene and data broker removal
- Use platform moderation tools, keyword filters and moderator teams to defend a community while protecting moderators
- Explain the US criminal, civil and platform options for harassment, threats and image abuse, and how to report and preserve evidence
- Plan for physical safety at events, meetups, home and while traveling
- Build support networks, access professional help and set clear wellbeing and safety responsibilities with managers and teams
- Produce a personal sustainability and safety plan covering workload, money, privacy, harassment response and support
Course content
12 lessons · 5 h 19 min total · final exam
- 1 The creator's job and why wellbeing matters 25 min · quiz
- 2 Workload, algorithms and burnout 27 min · quiz
- 3 Mental health, comparison and parasocial pressures 26 min · quiz
- 4 Sustainable schedules: sleep, routines, boundaries and breaks 30 min · quiz
- 5 Money stress and income volatility 28 min · quiz
- 6 Online harassment: types, impacts and response plans 27 min · quiz
- 7 Privacy, doxxing and operational security 26 min · quiz
- 8 Moderation tools and community defenses 26 min · quiz
- 9 Legal options and reporting in the US 24 min · quiz
- 10 Physical safety at events, meetups, home and while traveling 27 min · quiz
- 11 Support networks, professional help and working with a team 25 min · quiz
- 12 Capstone: a personal sustainability and safety plan 28 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
Sustaining a public life online: the job demands-resources view of creator work, burnout and algorithmic pressure, mental health, comparison and parasocial pressures, sustainable schedules and breaks, money stress, online harassment, doxxing and operational security, moderation, federal and state legal options including the TAKE IT DOWN Act, physical safety, support networks and a personal sustainability and safety plan.
Part of the Film & Photography stream, typically taken in year 3.