Call for Papers
2024 CALL FOR PAPERS:
MODERATION IN TIMES OF CRISIS
PROPOSALS DUE: February 29, 2024 — Now Closed
The world is experiencing an age of poly-crises, including increasing environmental disasters, rising refugee numbers and displacement, war and invasion, economic inequities, declining social cohesion, a rise in fascism and a decline in democracy, surging online hate, and more.
These concerns are deeply interconnected, and, although they impact regions and communities unevenly, they materialise in a wide range of online communities and digital social settings, Humans who moderate are tasked with building or maintain safe, constructive interactions and cultures amongst and despite these crises, and in some cases, are leveraging their moderation practices as resistance, or to facilitate empathy and understanding.
All Things in Moderation 2024 puts the age of crises under the microscope, and seeks to examine the role and impacts of moderation in this era, with the goal of generating critical research and promoting greater understanding and visibility of this practice and profession.
We invite research contributions for ATIM 2024 that focus on the following and related themes:
Moderation in times of crisis (social, political, cultural, economic, environmental, etc.)
The impact of war on online communities and moderators
Moderation as a colonising or decolonising practice
Moderating online activism
Moderation as resistance
Trauma informed approaches to moderation
The relationships between state actors, platforms and moderators
How automation and AI is impacting moderation in turbulent times
We welcome proposals for 20 minute papers or panel proposals (with several papers) exploring any and all aspects of these topics. In particular, encourage submissions from non-dominant voices in academic or media on these issues, and from the global South.
Final papers are due in May 2024 for presentation at the conference.
Email Abstracts or Proposals of 300 words with a short biography to venessa.paech@sydney.edu.au by February 29, 2024.
The organisers are exploring a special journal edition based on research generated from this conference. Note this is not guaranteed.