Conceptualizing, Creating, & Controlling Constructive and Controversial Comments: A CSCW 2017 Research-athon http://comp.social.gatech.edu/comments-cscw2017/ Many social media platforms provide features for commenting, which often provide affordances for people to give feedback to others. Around the theme of advancing research about online comments, this workshop aims to bring together a diverse range of researchers for cross-discipline community building and productive mixed-methods research. The workshop is structured around a research “hackathon,” where participants actively work on producing initial stages of research, theory, and design related to a central dataset (in the case of this workshop, public comments from a historical reddit.com corpus). Participants will form collaborative teams to tackle questions of interest that move forward current thinking around online comment behaviors, participants, quality, and design. The one-day workshop is led by 5 researchers, and it will accommodate up to 32 participants. Call for Workshop Applications The CCCCCCCR workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to work collaboratively in a "research-athon/hackathon" style workshop. We invite participants with both qualitative and quantitative backgrounds to collectively investigate a shared commenting dataset (everyone will be granted access to a collection of shared, similar datasets from Reddit) in order to generate immediate questions, hypotheses, findings, designs, and theories. We invite proposals from academic, industry, public sector, and activist researchers that touch on commenting in relation to: - Behaviors: commenting participation, norms, and quality - People: comment posters, repliers, and audiences - Moderation: commenting promotion, deletion, and control - Design: comment threads, replies, and interaction The workshop will be held on Sunday February 26th, 2017, from 8:30-5:00. Additionally, two weeks before CSCW, participants will be expected to attend a 1-hour pre-conference online video conference meeting, where workshop organizers will provide access to datasets, organize topic areas with suggested teams (based on workshop applications, but these are flexible), and answer any questions. We will also point participants with specific interests to particular portions of the dataset. (For any participants who wish to explore qualitative methods – e.g., conduct interviews during workshop time – we will ask them to consider plans for this work at this point before the workshop.) We invite short applications of no more than 4 pages including references in the ACM Extended Abstract Format. A PDF-version of the Extended-Abstract-formatted application should be sent to CSCW17CommentWorkshop@gmail.com by 8:00pm PST on January 10th. --- Alex Leavitt, Ph.D. Quantitative UX Researcher, Facebook Research http://alexleavitt.com Twitter: @alexleavitt <http://twitter.com/alexleavitt>