How does the professionalization of Trust & Safety shape global content moderation practices? We compare Community Guidelines using the typology of harms from TSPA to identify policy priorities and exclusions, available #openaccess in New Media & Society
ALT Heatmap of policy priorities from twelve livestreaming platforms, compared according to their share of rules in eigh different categories.
New #openaccess article with Omer Rothenstein and Nik John: "Stuck in the middleware with you: the challenges of capitalizing a market-oriented approach to platform governance." We assess the potential of third-party editorial services (recommendation algos, content mod) via š¦
I am hiring for two postdocs in the creator economy, hosted at Aarhus University. One focuses on monetization and governance, the other focuses on digital methods and industry trends. Link below #AcademicTwitter#mediastudies
The results of the ICA Elections are in! š Congratulations to all newly elected individuals! A huge thank-you to all candidates and voters who participatedāyour engagement and support strengthen our community. š buff.ly/iJujJ9i
šØNew publication alert! This one was a personal favorite of mine to work on, including fun facts about such topics as streamers farting into microphones for money. āHot tubs, yoga pants, and gambaā is out now and open access in Platforms & Society. journals.sagepub.com/doi/fulā¦
ALT Abstract for the new article "Hot tubs, yoga pants, and gamba: Twitch's controversial metas as cultural negotiations of platform governance" in Platforms & Society by CJ Reynolds.
Where are you in a āparalocalā relationship with? Looking at First Amendment auditors (aka people that film the police and post it to social media), @reynoldscj looks at how media practices can foster these relationships and transform civic engagement.
šØNew publication from my dissertation work! Examining the clash between First Amendment auditors and the police of Leon Valley, Texas, I theorize the development of paralocal relationships as a new form of civic engagement for the social media age. #openaccess
BIG NEWS (!!) Iāve received an ERC starting grant for my project PAY4PLAY: Entrepreneurial Organizing in the Platform Society. Please prepare to hear me talking about how platforms, creators, šø, organizing, and power for the next five years.
New research shows big platforms like Twitch follow #TrustAndSafety norms, but region-specific sites often donāt.
Standards arenāt one-size-fits-all. We need to test and adapt so rules fit how people really use these spaces. @SageJournalsjournals.sagepub.com/doi/10.ā¦
How does the professionalization of Trust & Safety shape global content moderation practices? We compare Community Guidelines using the typology of harms from TSPA to identify policy priorities and exclusions, available #openaccess in New Media & Society
ALT Heatmap of policy priorities from twelve livestreaming platforms, compared according to their share of rules in eigh different categories.
Many thanks to co-author dream team @reynoldscj Rebecca Scharlach, Dana Theiler, Noa Niv, Omer Rothenstein, Isabell Knief Yehonatan Kuperberg. This was a collaboration between @pgmt_lab š and the Participatory Platform Governance lab.
Thanks also to the following podcasts for providing one-sided but important conversations that inspired our work: Moderated Content, The Sunday Show, Rational Security, Ctrl-Alt-Speech, Views on First & Tech Policy Podcast
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