2025 CALL FOR PAPERS:
MODERATING THIRD SPACES
CFP DUE: March 15, 2025
In 2024, ATIM explored moderation in a world of poly-crisis. These challenges persist, with new uncertainties and inequities. In 2025 we are focused on building and restoring community through the power of third spaces.
Our shared digital spaces offer critical civic infrastructure and invaluable third spaces, providing we can maintain and nurture them. Moderation is uniquely positioned to empower pro-social, civic engagement and constructive mobilisation, and to support bridging capital across diverse and polarised groups and ecosystems. Moderation and online community practices can also help us better understand, and counter, socially destructive forces.
Final papers are due in May 2025 for presentation at the conference.
Email Abstracts or Proposals of 300 words with a short biography to venessa.paech@sydney.edu.au by March 15, 2025.
We invite research contributions for ATIM 2024 that focus on the following and related themes:
Governance for pro-social spaces
Community management as bridging capital
Moderation in polarised communities
Navigating new regulatory and ‘dys’-regulatory challenges
Moderation for vulnerable communities
Moderation and human rights
Community formation in unsafe spaces
How technology can support 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 - or others.
In particular, we welcome submissions from non-dominant voices in academic or media on these issues, and from the global South.
Feel free to reach out with any questions.