RESEARCH UNDER CONSTRUCTION !
RESEARCH UNDER CONSTRUCTION !
Twitch Metas
“Hot tubs, yoga pants, and gamba: Twitch's controversial metas as negotiations of platform culture” —> examines content optimization trends, known on Twitch as “metas," as part of the policymaking process and a flashpoint for the competing interests of creators, audiences, and the platform.
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).