There will be several workshops at the Social Media Moderation Summit, meant for attendees with shared interests to discuss emerging and relevant topics in content moderation with other researchers, leaders, and other professionals across disciplines and backgrounds.
The following topics will have its own dedicated workshop at the conference that will be in a breakout-style setting:
Workshop 1: Designing for Inclusivity
Content moderation systems disproportionately moderate marginalized groups, while top-down platforms employ one-size-fits-all approaches that focus on the general user. Join us in a collaborative effort towards designing interventions and platform frameworks that prioritize inclusivity and address issues of marginalization.
Workshop Lead: Jirassaya Uttarapong
Jirassaya (Jira) Uttarapong (any/all) is a UX Researcher at NJIT’s Social Interaction Lab. She graduated from NJIT with a B.S in Information Technology, with a concentration in video game development. Jira’s area of research encompasses HCI, content moderation, video games and game-adjacent digital communities, mental health, and marginalized identities. Jira is also a video game and software developer. She is passionate about understanding user behaviors in digital spaces, as well as exploring and developing solutions towards improving user experiences online
Workshop Lead: Hibby Tatch
Hibby Thach (they/she) is a PhD student at the University of Michigan’s School of Information, studying trans people of color’s online experiences with platforms and technologies. Their work covers various topics such as communal forms of content moderation, creative labor, and online embodiment. Currently, she is conducting a digital autoethnography on Twitch, using streaming as a method. Additionally, they are conducting interviews with multiply-marginalized streamers across axes of gender and race, hoping to highlight multiply-marginalized streamers’ experiences with Twitch. She has published in Press Start, New Media and Society, and at ACM CHI. They are also a co-founder of both D/ARC, the Discord Academic Research Community, and TRiP, Tabletop Research in Practice.
Workshop 2: Moderation Beyond Text and Images
The workshop delves into knowledge-bridging and design solutions for moderating different forms and modalities of media, content, and user behaviors beyond text and images. We will engage in group activities, brainstorming sessions, and collaborative redesigns to enhance trust and safety in digital environments.
Workshop Lead: Renkai Ma
Renkai Ma is a PhD candidate in human-computer interaction (HCI) at Pennsylvania State University. His research interests span HCI, computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), social computing, and trust and safety, with an emphasis on building mutual trust among diverse users and technologies and designing a safe online environment for users, including both high-profile and vulnerable populations (e.g., content creators, children). He has published research at highly selective HCI venues, including the ACM CHI and CSCW. He also conducted User Experience research at SiriusXM/Pandora and Meta/WhatsApp.
If you have any questions, please reach out to moderationsummit@gmail.com
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