Content tagged "Reddit"
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Posted by Claudia Lo S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2018
Topics: community, esports, moderation, Reddit, Twitch, workWhen All You Have is a Banhammer: The Social and Communicative Work of Volunteer Moderators
Drawing upon interviews, participant observation, and my own experiences as a volunteer community moderator on Reddit, I propose that a significant portion of work performed by volunteer moderators is social and communicative in nature.
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Posted by Michael Trice and Liza Potts
Building Dark Patterns into Platforms: How GamerGate Perturbed Twitter’s User Experience
“GamerGate trapped both its unwilling targets and willing participants in an unending cycle of rhetorical invention through a mechanism of aggressive, hostile, mob-like activism.”