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.
Reaction Videos
“Reaction videos as a mechanism of networked normative governance” —> analyzes how social media users negotiate commercial content moderation and develop alternative strategies of platform governance, focusing on an old but under-investigated tool: the react video (with Blake Hallinan, Omer Rothenstein, and Yehonatan Kuperberg).
1A Audits
“Paralocal Relationships: Rebuilding Civic Engagement with the Local through Social Media” —> uses the case study of a prolonged clash between First Amendment auditors and the police chief of Leon Valley, Texas to explore how platform-enabled forms of civic engagement extend our understanding of the local.
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).