A D/ARC BONFIRE CHAT:
CONTENT MODERATION ON DISCORD
May 18th , 1-2pm Eastern
The D/ARC is thrilled to be hosting a one-hour bonfire chat with four content moderation experts about current challenges, ongoing work, and new directions in content moderation on contemporary social
media platforms– and Discord in particular. This event is free and open to the public. The chat will be moderated by D/ARC moderator Hibby Thach. Read more about our amazing panelists below.
RSVP in the D/ARC server by joining through the link below.
Dr. Robyn Caplan
Robyn Caplan is a Researcher at Data & Society Research Institute and a founding member of the Platform Governance Research Network. She received her PhD from the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University. She conducts research at the intersection of platform governance and media policy. Her research examines the impact of inter-and-intra-organizational behavior on platform governance and content moderation.
Sohyeon Hwang
Sohyeon Hwang is a PhD student in the Media, Technology, and Society program at Northwestern University. Using large-scale data and interview studies, her work focuses on how online communities use rules, tools, and design in unique ways to meet their needs, and what the development and implementation of varied governing routines across groups within shared sociotechnical systems implies for online governance.
Zac Parker
Zac Parker is a Moderation Program Manager at Discord, where he makes educational content, helps moderators on the platform, and builds relationships with academic partners. He is currently completing a PhD in Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studying how communities heal and rebuild in the wake of terrorism.
Dr. Joseph Seering
Joseph Seering is a postdoctoral scholar in Computer Science at Stanford University and an affiliated fellow at the Yale Social Media Governance Initiative. His work focuses on the social and organizational dynamics of moderation systems on online social platforms, exploring ways in which users’ self-governance behaviors can be strengthened. His work begins with empirical analyses to understand community behaviors and challenges, and he translates the resulting findings into the design and development of new systems. He has received awards for his papers at the ACM CHI, CSCW, and CHI PLAY conferences, and was recently named one of the CCC/CRA Computing Innovation Fellows of 2021.
Moderated By
Hibby Thach
Hibby Thach (they/them) is a D/ARC moderator and an incoming PhD student at the University of Michigan’s School of Information, studying identity, content moderation, and digital cultures.