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This is a liveblog from the “Private Platforms under Public Pressure” roundtable at AoIR16 on October 23, 2015 in Phoenix, AZ. This is not a transcript but recreation of people’s comments. Any errors are my own. This roundtable featured scholars J. Nathan Matias, Tarleton Gillespie, Christian Sandvig, Mike Ananny, and […]

I’m here at the 16th AOIR conference liveblogging a session on ethics. You can see the abstracts and papers here. To start out Mathias Klang gives a talk about “online vigilantism,” On The Internet Nobody Can See Your Cape: The ethics of online vigilantism. What is online vigilantism? Mathias talks […]

This is a liveblog from the “#BlackLivesMatter: At the Intersection of Racial Politics and Digital Activism” panel at AoIR16 on October 22, 2015 in Phoenix, AZ. Any errors here are my own. This panel features four anti-racist, feminist scholars, showcasing how we as researchers take on the role of documenting […]

This weekend, I’m here at the 16th AOIR conference, blogging panels and talks, as well as talking about my research on ways that users put platforms under pressure. As a Christian who occasionally writes about intersections between faith and technology, I was delighted to attend the AOIR session on religion […]

What does it take to create business models that put worker well-being at their center, and what can platform economies learn from that history? How can we turn a lousy job into a better one? Every Tuesday, Brian Keegan and I are privileged to facilitate the Berkman Cooperation working group, […]