Mi permetto un rapido endorsement del conferenziere di oggi: Nate Mathias a condotto una ricerca interessantissima sullo sciopero dei moderatori volontari di Reddit in occasione della vertenza per il licenziamento di due dipendenti dell'impresa californiana. Le conseguenze in termini di digital labor sono molteplici e l'articolo ha ricevuto la Best Paper Honorable Mention della conferenza CHI di quest'anno. Going Dark: Social Factors in Collective Action Against Platform Operators in the Reddit Blackout http://natematias.com/media/GoingDark-Matias-2016.pdf "Although community leaders have most famously responded to the tensions of unpaid and freely given labor in platform economies, forum moderators have also played important roles in collective action by waged crowd workers and political bloggers attempting to change policies on the platforms they use. What factors lead to collective action against platform operators by these leaders and their communities? In July 2015, moderators of 2,278 \subreddit" community groups on the social news site reddit joined a \blackout," preventing millions of users from accessing major parts of the platform and demanding improved treatment by the company. Within hours, the company promised to meet moderators' demands, and moderators reactivated the communities they had disabled. One week later, reddit CEO Ellen Pao left the company." ----- Mail original ----- De: "Giuseppe Futia" <giuseppe.futia@polito.it> À: nexa@server-nexa.polito.it Envoyé: Mardi 23 Février 2016 05:13:05 Objet: [nexa] Berkman Center Webcast live oggi ore 18 - Developing Effective Citizen Responses to Discrimination and Harassment Online Developing Effective Citizen Responses to Discrimination and Harassment Online https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheons/2016/02/Matias with Berkman Fellow, Nathan Matias Today, 6.00 pm Webcast live: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/interactive/webcast http://nexa.polito.it/berkman-webcast-live Discrimination and harassment have been persistent problems since the earliest days of the social web. As platforms and legislators continue to debate and engineer responses, most of the burden of dealing with online discrimination and harassment has been borne by the online citizens who experience and respond to these problems. How can everyday Internet citizens make sense of social problems online, including our own racist and sexist behavior? How can we support each other and cooperate towards change in meaningful, effective ways? And how can we know that our interventions are making a difference? MIT PhD candidate Nathan Matias shares four years of research and design interventions aimed at expanding the power of citizens to understand and develop effective responses to discrimination and harassment online. About Nathan Nathan Matias is a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab Center for Civic Media with Ethan Zuckerman and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. His research interests focus on social computing, collective action, and citizen-led social science. Nathan has collaborated with a wide range of social media companies, news organizations, and advocates to better understand issues of gender discrimination, harassment, and social movements online. His PhD explores methods for digital citizens to conduct data science and field experiments to monitor problems and evaluate their responses to social problems online. Before MIT, Nathan worked in tech startups that have reached over a billion users, helped start a series of education and journalistic charities, and studied postcolonial literature at the University of Cambridge and Elizabethtown College. He has published data journalism and in The Atlantic, PBS, the Guardian, and other international media. _______________________________________________ nexa mailing list nexa@server-nexa.polito.it https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa