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DESCRIPTION:COMMColloquium\n\nBehind the Banhammer: An Ethnography of Commu
 nity Moderation on Reddit \n\nSarah Gilbert\, Postdoc and Research Manager
  for CAT Lab\, Cornell University\n\n2pm in 102 Mann\n\nReception to follo
 w in the Hub\n\n \n\nAs online communities play important roles in the way
  we work\, socialize\, and access information\, we find ourselves regularl
 y navigating issues such as discrimination and abuse\, mis/disinformation\
 , polarization and extremism. Online platforms are increasingly relying on
  content moderation to contend with these issues. Questions like\, how do 
 decisions about who sees what get made? and how can we support fairer mode
 ration processes? have become fundamental to understanding the current sta
 te and possibilities for community discourse online. I use ethnographic an
 d participatory methods to study these questions in online communities. In
  this talk I will discuss five years of ethnographic research with r/AskHi
 storians moderators and its large community\, addressing issues that impac
 t community moderation labour such as platform design and culture\, decisi
 on making processes and managing disagreement\, and the impact of moderati
 on on individual users and the wider community. I demonstrate that communi
 ty moderators have an important yet often overlooked role in shaping the s
 paces in which we engage and the information we find there. Better underst
 anding and supporting their work is critical to realizing the potential of
  online platforms for fair and productive discourse.\n\n \n\nSarah Gilbert
  (she/her/hers) is a postdoctoral associate Cornell University and Researc
 h Manager of the Citizens and Technology Lab. Her work focuses on understa
 nding and designing healthy online communities\, studying topics like what
  influences participation\, how people learn in online communities\, how v
 olunteer moderators’ labor impacts community governance\, and how resear
 ch in those areas can be done ethically.
GEO:42.448719;-76.476494
LOCATION:Mann Library\, 102
SUMMARY:COMMColloquium: Sarah Gilbert
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/commcolloquium_sarah_gilbert
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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