When we started, few papers estimated the effect of deplatforming. Now, there are many great papers focusing on different social media platforms: Reddit: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114… Twitter: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/34… Facebook: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Manoel Shagun Jhaver

Does observing why someone's post got removed influence an observer's online behavior? Come see me talk about a project Koustuv Saha and I conducted to answer this question tomorrow in 313B at 9 am #CHI2024 programs.sigchi.org/chi/2024/progr…

SFL Social Futures Lab current members and alumni at #chi2024! We’ve got Tony Li, Kevin Feng @ CHI, Shagun Jhaver, Lawrence Tan, Nick Vincent, Gloria Bingcan Guo @CHI2025, Leijie Wang, Emelia ✨ @CSCW2024, and Alicia Guo!!!

Question: what's the earliest use of 'flag' or 'report' as a moderation feature on any online platform that you can remember? Did early online communities (I'm thinking early 90's and before) use flags?

If you're a recently graduated or about-to-graduate PhD looking for a postdoc in the space of auditing AI systems, epistemic risks of generative AI, and thinking about human-centric ways of addressing these risks, please apply and reach out: apply.interfolio.com/147302

My biggest project to date just landed in Berlin 🫣🤖 After many years of research, writing, and revision, I'm so excited to hear what you all think about 'The Politics of Platform Regulation: How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation.' A short 🧵of summary and thanks:

Have you ever flagged a social media post or account? We are conducting a study to examine users’ motivations and concerns about the flagging process. Please join us for a 60-90 minute interview and tell us about your experiences by submitting this form: forms.gle/FtiFLUtiyYYay8…

LLMs rely on adversarial testing or "AI red teaming," but what does it involve? Who should do it? Join our #CSCW2024 with experts including RT leads (@_lamaahma and Ram Shankar Siva Kumar), Mary L. Gray, and Benjamin Shestakofsky Apply to join: bit.ly/airedteam Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2407.07786

What an insane decade it’s been this week.

Come join our department. Great university, great location, and great colleagues. I am on the search committee for (human centered) AI and please DM for questions.

I used to make fun of my advisor for forgetting everything we talked about the previous week.... Now I ask my students to create tickets on linear and assign them to me whenever I agreed to do something for them!

Join us! 🚀 My team at Rutgers Football is hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher in Human-centered Data Science. Shape the future of systems for document validation and information integrity. 🌟 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/237526 #Hiring #Postdoc #DataScience #AI #MachineLearning #InformationIntegrity

🌟 Exciting Opportunity Alert! 🌟 Rutgers University-New Brunswick is seeking a dynamic and visionary leader for the position of Dean of the School of Communication and Information. The application deadline for best consideration is January 13, 2025. ow.ly/YiAZ50U6VzU

Study: Facebook memes abt #CriticalRaceTheory...supporters & opponents use rhetoric diverging from academic definition. Memes central in political sensemaking...challenging "post-truth" politics. With Rutgers School of Communication and Information Shagun Jhaver Kiran Garimella Alyvia Walters arxiv.org/abs/2310.03171

📢CFP: Intl. Workshop on Computational Approaches to Content Moderation and Platform Governance (COMPASS'25) at ICWSM sites.google.com/view/workshop-… w/ Savvas Zannettou Catalina Goanta Shagun Jhaver Robyn Caplan ⌛️Deadline: April 7 📨Submit your papers here ➡️ easychair.org/my/conference?… Istituto di Informatica e Telematica CNR

📢 COMPASS Deadline Extended!! We extended the submission deadline of the workshop on Content #Moderation and Platform #Governance: sites.google.com/view/workshop-… 📆 New deadline: April 14, 2025 🔗 Submit: easychair.org/my/conference?… Catalina Goanta Savvas Zannettou Shagun Jhaver Robyn Caplan