IRTF RASP update: The Research and Analysis of Standard-Setting Processes Research Group met at #IETF121 covering gender & participation, tooling to analyse @ietf data, LLM-powered automatic reports, and participation patterns youtube.com/watch?v=iB_I82qP… [1/n]
Kaliya "Identity Woman" Young & Day Waterbury looked at the Regenerative Patterns and Practices of the Internet Engineering Task Force datatracker.ietf.org/meeting… [5/n]
Mandate data sharing. Academics must have access to social media data, and it’s time for regulators to step in. Without transparency, platforms that shape elections, influence disaster responses, and impact careers remain unaccountable. This is essential now! #CSCW2024
If you're researching social platforms and attending #CSCW2024 in Costa Rica next week, I highly encourage you to attend our SIG on "Community-Driven Models for Supporting Research on Social Platforms" (Wed: 9-10:30 AM, Cartago Room).
Twitter shows the risk of the centralised/monolithic/vertically integrated organisation approach with a benevolent dictator at the top: including the elusive nature of benevolence. 2 #IMC2024 papers examine Mastodon & Bluesky exploration of the design space of alternatives: [1/4]
[4/4] Leo Balduf & Saidu Sokoto show that breaking the monopoly of content moderation/recommendation works: Bluesky users create their own labels for moderation & content moderation/recommendation, however opened functionalities with greater barrier of entrance see low adoption
📢 Excited to share our latest paper "Fediverse Migrations: A Study of User Account Portability on Mastodon". We explore the patterns of instance switching on #Mastodon, a leading decentralized microblogging social network. 🧵
📢 @inretafo RASP RG agenda for #IETF121 is out with talks going from the economics of participation at SDOs, to code and LLM tooling to understand the data the @ietf produces & analysis on the patterns of languages used. 👉datatracker.ietf.org/doc/age…