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108/25/2020Introduction: Online ModerationFirst day of class!

Meeting agenda
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08/27/2020The Virtues of Moderation

Regulating Behavior in Online Communities (class activity -> pick your favorite design claim and tell me what you think about it)
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209/01/2020Defining antisocial:
abuse, harassment, hate speech		A Survey on Hate Speech Detection using Natural Language Processing

Automated Hate Speech Detection and the Problem of Offensive Language
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09/03/2020Online harassment and content moderation: The case of blocklists

Censored, suspended, shadowbanned: User interpretations of content moderation on social media platforms
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309/08/2020RESEARCH PITCH #1Submit talk materials on Compass by 3:30 PM Central Time on 09/08/2020
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09/10/2020Common approaches to moderationModerating a public scholarship site on Reddit: A case study of r/AskHistorians

Moderator engagement and community development in the age of algorithms		Guest speaker
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409/15/2020Commercial Content Moderation: Digital Laborer's Dirty Work

Slash (dot) and burn: distributed moderation in a large online conversation space
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09/17/2020Regulating multimedia content: 1Moderation challenges in Voice-based Online Communities on Discord

Creating a Multimodal Dataset of Images and Text to Study Abusive Language		Guest speaker
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509/22/2020RESEARCH PITCH #2Submit talk materials on Compass by 3:30 PM Central Time on 09/22/2020
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09/24/2020Regulating multimedia content: 2Harassment in Social Virtual Reality: Challenges for Platform Governance

A longitudinal analysis of YouTube's promotion of conspiracy videos
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609/29/2020Community norms matterTweetment Effects on the Tweeted: Experimentally Reducing Racist Harassment

Shaping Pro and Anti-Social Behavior on Twitch Through Moderation and Example-Setting
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10/01/2020Quick, Community-Specific Learning: How Distinctive Toxicity Norms Are Maintained in Political Subreddits

The Internet’s Hidden Rules: An Empirical Study of Reddit Norm Violations at Micro, Meso, and Macro Scales		Guest speaker
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710/06/2020PROPOSAL TALKSSubmit talk materials on Compass by 3:30 PM Central Time on 10/06/2020
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10/08/2020
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810/13/2020Human-AI collaborationHuman-Machine Collaboration for Content Regulation: The Case of Reddit Automoderator

Crossmod: A Cross-Community Learning-based System to Assist Reddit Moderators
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10/15/2020Keeping Community in the Loop: Understanding Wikipedia Stakeholder Values for Machine Learning-Based Systems

The effects of algorithmic flagging on fairness: quasi-experimental evidence from Wikipedia		Guest speaker
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910/20/2020User- and community-centric solutionsSquadbox: A tool to combat email harassment using friendsourced moderation

CivilServant: Community-Led Experiments in Platform Governance
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10/22/2020Synthesized Social Signals: Computationally-Derived Social Signals from Account Histories

PolicyKit: Building Governance in Online Communities		Guest speaker
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1010/27/2020Effects of moderation interventionsUser Migration in Online Social Networks: A Case Study on Reddit During a Period of Community Unrest

You Can't Stay Here: The Efficacy of Reddit's 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech
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10/29/2020#thyghgapp: Instagram Content Moderation and Lexical Variation in Pro-eating Disorder Communities

How Community Feedback Shapes User Behavior		Guest speaker
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1111/03/2020ELECTION DAY-
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11/05/2020Other forms of antisocial behavior:
Misinformation, conspiracy		"The Government Spies Using Our Webcams:" The Language of Conspiracy Theories in Online Discussions

Conspiracies Online: User discussions in a Conspiracy Community Following Dramatic Events 		Guest speaker
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1211/10/2020Rumors, False Flags, and Digital Vigilantes: Misinformation on Twitter after the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing

Still out there: Modeling and Identifying Russian Troll Accounts on Twitter​
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11/12/2020CHECK-IN: FINAL PAPERClaim time slots for meetings
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1311/17/2020Addressing current challenges:
Transparency, bias		Classification and Its Consequences for Online Harassment: Design Insights from Heartmob

Does Transparency in Moderation Really Matter?: User Behavior After Content Removal Explanations on Reddit
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11/19/2020Feature-Based Explanations Don't Help People Detect Misclassifications of Online Toxicity

Social Bias Frames: Reasoning about Social and Power Implications of Language		Guest speaker
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1411/24/2020FALL BREAK-
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1512/01/2020Addressing current challenges:
healthy behavior, justice,
proactive approaches		A Just and Comprehensive Strategy for Using NLP to Address Online Abuse

A computational approach to politeness with application to social factors
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12/03/2020FINAL PAPER TALKSSubmit talk materials on Compass by 3:30PM Central Time on 12/03/2020.

FINAL PAPER DUE ON 12/11/2020, 11:59PM CENTRAL TIME
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