From: Venessa Paech <venessa.paech@sydney.edu.au>
Date: 13 November 2022 at 10:51:54 pm AEDT To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: CFP: All Things in Moderation - Cultures of Care
Dear colleagues,
It was wonderful catching up with many of you in Dublin. I draw your attention to a new conference and CFP.
CALL FOR PAPERS - All Things in Moderation: Cultures of Care
Submission Date: February 6, 2023 Organisation: ACM | University of Sydney | University of Melbourne Contact email: venessa.paech@sydney.edu.au
Moderation is an ancient human practice taking on new forms and significance in the digital age. Human moderators of all types, across cultures, countries and contexts, work to maintain boundaries, implement regulation, create safe and healthy spaces for interaction within digital settings. They work alone, in groups and for organisations. They work within machine culture and with machine assistance, in circumstances that range from oppressive to empowering. They may be an avatar for organic community standards, or for external logics and priorities. The practice is diverse and complex, yet this is rarely reflected in the public discourses or research surrounding online moderation and its relational labors.
All Things in Moderation (11-12 May, 2023) is the first global conference dedicated to online moderation which emphasises its richness, complexity and importance. It will gather moderation practitioners around the world alongside researchers, policy-makers, technologists, and anyone who cares about moderation as a critical cultural practice, for two days of knowledge sharing, learning and action-focused collaboration.
The conference is an initiative of Australian Community Managers (ACM), the leading training and research organisation for online community managers and moderators in Australia (working across all industries), and a collaboration between the University of Sydney and Melbourne. It will be conducted online to ensure safety and accessibility by the widest possible range of contributors and attendees.
Symposium and Call for Papers The conference includes an academic symposium on moderation, with the goal of generating critical research and promoting greater understanding and visibility of this practice and profession.
We invite papers that focus on the following and related themes:
Moderation in spaces of care How can we emphasise the care of humans within moderation systems and structures? First Nations approaches to moderation Trauma informed approaches to moderation Impacts of automation and AI on structures of care in social media spaces Emotional labour and caring for moderators Legislating care within digital social spaces 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 April 2023 (date to be confirmed) for presentation at the May conference.
Email Abstracts of 300 words with a short biography to venessa.paech@sydney.edu.au by February 6, 2023. We welcome questions or further discussion prior to submission to this email.
VENESSA PAECH She/Hers PhD Student | Community in the Age of Machine Culture Department of Media and Communication | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Lecturer, Online Community Management Phone: + 61 0435 217
I respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Owners, Custodians and Elders past and present of the Wadawurrung people, on whose lands I reside.