RESEARCH UNDER CONSTRUCTION !
RESEARCH UNDER CONSTRUCTION !
Metafandom Governance
“Metafandom Governance” —> examines copyright controversies documented on Wikitubia to understand how fans position themselves in relation to content creation as a media industry and contribute to setting norms around appropriate uses of copyright reporting tools, regardless of the law (with D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, Landrous Xinyue Shen, and Blake Hallinan).
Unban Requests
“Unban Requests on Twitch as Livestreamed Content Moderation” —> examines the transformation of content moderation into content through the case of “unban requests” adjudicated by livestreamers as a bottom-up strategy for setting and enforcing community standards of behavior on platforms (with Tarleton Gillespie).
YouTube Rewind
Community Notes
“Reflecting the YouTube You Know: Rewinding the Platform Politics of YouTube’s Defunct Yearly Recap” —> a retrospective analysis of the deliberate death of YouTube Rewind as the culmination of a struggle between YouTube’s corporate leadership and its multi-national userbase about who gets to define the culture of a global platform.
“Community Notes as a participatory strategy of consumer protection” —> a qualitative and computational analysis of consumer protection-oriented Community Notes on X that assesses the potential and limitations of participatory approaches for addressing consumer harms on social media (with Noa Niv, Omer Rothenstein, and Yehonatan Kuperberg).