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Papers by Venessa Paech
Abstract: This chapter develops a new concept: ‘the exile’. Within an online community, there is ... more Abstract: This chapter develops a new concept: ‘the exile’. Within an online community, there is a range of characters and relationships. However, when a former member of the online community continues to return and harass members, a series of strategies is required from community managers to create unity against the chaos. This chapter reveals and assesses those options.
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
Social media platforms have been struggling to moderate at scale. In an effort to better cope wit... more Social media platforms have been struggling to moderate at scale. In an effort to better cope with content moderation discussion has turned to the role that automated machine-learning (ML) tools might play. The development of automated systems by social media platforms is a notoriously opaque process and public values that pertain to the common good are at stake within these often-obscured processes. One site in which social values are being negotiated is in the framing of what is considered ‘toxic’ by platforms in the development of automated moderation processes. This study takes into consideration differing notions of toxicity – community, platform and societal by examining three measures of toxicity and community health (the ML tool Perspective API; Reddit’s 2020 Content Policy; and the Sense of Community Index-2) and how they are operationalised in the context of r/MGTOW – an antifeminist group known for its misogyny. Several stages of content analysis were conducted on the top...
Gemeinschaften in Neuen Medien. Digitale Partizipation in hybriden Realitäten und Gemeinschaften., 2021
AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2020
Over the past two years social media platforms have been struggling to moderate at scale. At the ... more Over the past two years social media platforms have been struggling to moderate at scale. At the same time, they have come under fire for failing to mitigate the risks of perceived ‘toxic’ content or behaviour on their platforms. In effort to better cope with content moderation, to combat hate speech, ‘dangerous organisations’ and other bad actors present on platforms, discussion has turned to the role that automated machine-learning (ML) tools might play. This paper contributes to thinking about the role and suitability of ML for content moderation on community platforms such as Reddit and Facebook. In particular, it looks at how ML tools operate (or fail to operate) effectively at the intersection between online sentiment within communities and social and platform expectations of acceptable discourse. Through an examination of the r/MGTOW subreddit we problematise current understandings of the notion of ‘tox¬icity’ as applied to cultural or social sub-communities online and explai...
https://spir.aoir.org/, 2020
Over the past two years social media platforms have been struggling to moderate at scale. At the ... more Over the past two years social media platforms have been struggling to moderate at scale. At the same time, they have come under fire for failing to mitigate the risks of perceived ‘toxic’ content or behaviour on their platforms. In effort to better cope with content moderation, to combat hate speech, ‘dangerous organisations’ and other bad actors present on platforms, discussion has turned to the role that automated machine-learning (ML) tools might play. This paper contributes to thinking about the role and suitability of ML for content moderation on community platforms such as Reddit and Facebook. In particular, it looks at how ML tools operate (or fail to operate) effectively at the intersection between online sentiment within communities and social and platform expectations of acceptable discourse. Through an examination of the r/MGTOW subreddit we problematise current understandings of the notion of ‘tox¬icity’ as applied to cultural or social sub-communities online and explain how this interacts with Google’s Perspective tool.
Digital Dialogues and Community 2.0, 2012
"The inevitable exile: a missing link in online community discourse - Place is the thing - P... more "The inevitable exile: a missing link in online community discourse - Place is the thing - Panoptical temptation - Reincarnation as networked norm - Forgiveness not permission - Culture jammer or parasite? - I’ve got you under my skin - Permaban and punish - Legibility and responsibility - Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right"
Christian Garland BA Philosophy and Politics (UEA), MA Social and Political Thought (Sussex) is c... more Christian Garland BA Philosophy and Politics (UEA), MA Social and Political Thought (Sussex) is currently an independent writer and researcher. He has research interests that include Adorno, Benjamin, and the original Frankfurt School, and the intersection between autonomist Marxism and class-struggle anarchism, on which he has published papers and essays. He intends to return to PhD studies in 2010 or 2011. christiangarland@ hotmail. com
The inevitable exile: a missing link in online community discourse - Place is the thing - Pano... more The inevitable exile: a missing link in online community discourse
- Place is the thing
- Panoptical temptation
- Reincarnation as networked norm
- Forgiveness not permission
- Culture jammer or parasite?
- I’ve got you under my skin
- Permaban and punish
- Legibility and responsibility
- Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right
Our capacity to operate as a social broadcaster and sensor in a networked culture is prized and f... more Our capacity to operate as a social broadcaster and sensor in a networked culture is prized and fettishized - the 'myth' of communication dominates. Is it true that power and influence can come from almost anywhere in a democratised mediascape, but they require presence to be heard and proliferation to impact.
The intersect of acceleration and mobility problematises temporal abstentions, with rhetoric of transformative speed and movement promoting a cultural devaluation of prolonged repose. Those who lack the resources, literacies or will to perform the role of transmitter are resigned to a discrete spatial and temporal territory – they are invisible and less ‘effective’. This paper ponders the question: what happens to those who are not creating and socialising media, reaffirming our existence and value via tribal, commercial and commentative lenses? Does an unpublished self perish?
Abstract: This chapter develops a new concept: ‘the exile’. Within an online community, there is ... more Abstract: This chapter develops a new concept: ‘the exile’. Within an online community, there is a range of characters and relationships. However, when a former member of the online community continues to return and harass members, a series of strategies is required from community managers to create unity against the chaos. This chapter reveals and assesses those options.
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
Social media platforms have been struggling to moderate at scale. In an effort to better cope wit... more Social media platforms have been struggling to moderate at scale. In an effort to better cope with content moderation discussion has turned to the role that automated machine-learning (ML) tools might play. The development of automated systems by social media platforms is a notoriously opaque process and public values that pertain to the common good are at stake within these often-obscured processes. One site in which social values are being negotiated is in the framing of what is considered ‘toxic’ by platforms in the development of automated moderation processes. This study takes into consideration differing notions of toxicity – community, platform and societal by examining three measures of toxicity and community health (the ML tool Perspective API; Reddit’s 2020 Content Policy; and the Sense of Community Index-2) and how they are operationalised in the context of r/MGTOW – an antifeminist group known for its misogyny. Several stages of content analysis were conducted on the top...
Gemeinschaften in Neuen Medien. Digitale Partizipation in hybriden Realitäten und Gemeinschaften., 2021
AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2020
Over the past two years social media platforms have been struggling to moderate at scale. At the ... more Over the past two years social media platforms have been struggling to moderate at scale. At the same time, they have come under fire for failing to mitigate the risks of perceived ‘toxic’ content or behaviour on their platforms. In effort to better cope with content moderation, to combat hate speech, ‘dangerous organisations’ and other bad actors present on platforms, discussion has turned to the role that automated machine-learning (ML) tools might play. This paper contributes to thinking about the role and suitability of ML for content moderation on community platforms such as Reddit and Facebook. In particular, it looks at how ML tools operate (or fail to operate) effectively at the intersection between online sentiment within communities and social and platform expectations of acceptable discourse. Through an examination of the r/MGTOW subreddit we problematise current understandings of the notion of ‘tox¬icity’ as applied to cultural or social sub-communities online and explai...
https://spir.aoir.org/, 2020
Over the past two years social media platforms have been struggling to moderate at scale. At the ... more Over the past two years social media platforms have been struggling to moderate at scale. At the same time, they have come under fire for failing to mitigate the risks of perceived ‘toxic’ content or behaviour on their platforms. In effort to better cope with content moderation, to combat hate speech, ‘dangerous organisations’ and other bad actors present on platforms, discussion has turned to the role that automated machine-learning (ML) tools might play. This paper contributes to thinking about the role and suitability of ML for content moderation on community platforms such as Reddit and Facebook. In particular, it looks at how ML tools operate (or fail to operate) effectively at the intersection between online sentiment within communities and social and platform expectations of acceptable discourse. Through an examination of the r/MGTOW subreddit we problematise current understandings of the notion of ‘tox¬icity’ as applied to cultural or social sub-communities online and explain how this interacts with Google’s Perspective tool.
Digital Dialogues and Community 2.0, 2012
"The inevitable exile: a missing link in online community discourse - Place is the thing - P... more "The inevitable exile: a missing link in online community discourse - Place is the thing - Panoptical temptation - Reincarnation as networked norm - Forgiveness not permission - Culture jammer or parasite? - I’ve got you under my skin - Permaban and punish - Legibility and responsibility - Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right"
Christian Garland BA Philosophy and Politics (UEA), MA Social and Political Thought (Sussex) is c... more Christian Garland BA Philosophy and Politics (UEA), MA Social and Political Thought (Sussex) is currently an independent writer and researcher. He has research interests that include Adorno, Benjamin, and the original Frankfurt School, and the intersection between autonomist Marxism and class-struggle anarchism, on which he has published papers and essays. He intends to return to PhD studies in 2010 or 2011. christiangarland@ hotmail. com
The inevitable exile: a missing link in online community discourse - Place is the thing - Pano... more The inevitable exile: a missing link in online community discourse
- Place is the thing
- Panoptical temptation
- Reincarnation as networked norm
- Forgiveness not permission
- Culture jammer or parasite?
- I’ve got you under my skin
- Permaban and punish
- Legibility and responsibility
- Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right
Our capacity to operate as a social broadcaster and sensor in a networked culture is prized and f... more Our capacity to operate as a social broadcaster and sensor in a networked culture is prized and fettishized - the 'myth' of communication dominates. Is it true that power and influence can come from almost anywhere in a democratised mediascape, but they require presence to be heard and proliferation to impact.
The intersect of acceleration and mobility problematises temporal abstentions, with rhetoric of transformative speed and movement promoting a cultural devaluation of prolonged repose. Those who lack the resources, literacies or will to perform the role of transmitter are resigned to a discrete spatial and temporal territory – they are invisible and less ‘effective’. This paper ponders the question: what happens to those who are not creating and socialising media, reaffirming our existence and value via tribal, commercial and commentative lenses? Does an unpublished self perish?