---- Mathias Klang, Associate Professor, Political Communication UMass Boston www.klangable.com @klangable On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 10:24 PM -0400, "Josie Anne Reade" <j.reade@student.unimelb.edu.au> wrote: Hi all, I am wondering if anyone on this mailing list is able to suggest a third party discussion platform that meets the below criteria. FUNTIONALITY: Allow group members to create a new post, comment on existing posts, add photos and videos/voice recordings. Allow administrators to perform all group member functions as well as approve and/or delete group members posts when necessary. ACCESSIBILITY: Accessible on a range of devices such as desktops, tablet computers and smartphones (Android and iOS operating systems). Easy to navigate user interface. PRIVACY: Discussion needs to remain private and only visible to group members via log in. Group members must be able to either create their own username or be assigned a username, without it having to be their full name or connected to any of their existing social media profiles (hence even though a secret Facebook group would be convenient and easy to use for participants, it is not suitable as group members are able to see each other’s names). I am a research assistant on a project that seeks to use this method to elicit responses from a cohort of 530 participants and augment the project’s existing use of interviews and workshops. I have looked at Reddit, Muut and Google Groups but they don’t seem to quite tick all of the boxes. Also in conversation with EthOS. Any suggestions or tips welcome. Thank you in advance! Josie _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

I run a small social network called FWD:Everyone (www.fwdeveryone.com) that meets most/all of these needs. The site facilitates publishing email conversations, either publicly on the web or else privately within an organization. Here is a link that shows what one of the public threads looks like... Clicking thread participants brings up their profiles, you can see comments at the bottom of the threads, etc. https://www.fwdeveryone.com/t/qzFKnR4GQC6UVtzgHulRFA/huffpost-artsy We have some other academics using the platform for similar use cases, because it allows administrators to email out a question or homework assignment to their students. Then each student just replies to that message, can have a back-and-forth with the teacher, and then upload it to one of the private repositories within their organization. One nice design feature for this use case is that while users need an account to post comments or create profiles on the site, they don't need any of that just to reply to an email and have it published within their organization. This means that forgetting their passwords or having technical issues isn't ever a reason for them not getting their homework done. The design is responsive for desktop/phones/tablets and it supports attachments. Having admin tools to delete content within your organization is in the API, and should be added to the front end within the next week or two. If participants ever decide they want to make some of their conversations completely public, we have tools for automatically getting permission from each message contributor in a thread, anonymizing users, making redactions, etc. We're also an Embedly provider, meaning that content can be easily embedded within your website or blog, or else within platforms like Reddit or Medium. Here is a link showing what our embed looks like in an iFrame or whatever: https://oembed.fwdeveryone.com/?threadId=aY8lj4Z9Q0-C6Ol_Nl_UmA Alex On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 10:24 PM, Josie Anne Reade < j.reade@student.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

Hi all,

I am wondering if anyone on this mailing list is able to suggest a third party discussion platform that meets the below criteria.

FUNTIONALITY: Allow group members to create a new post, comment on existing posts, add photos and videos/voice recordings. Allow administrators to perform all group member functions as well as approve and/or delete group members posts when necessary.

ACCESSIBILITY: Accessible on a range of devices such as desktops, tablet computers and smartphones (Android and iOS operating systems). Easy to navigate user interface.

PRIVACY: Discussion needs to remain private and only visible to group members via log in. Group members must be able to either create their own username or be assigned a username, without it having to be their full name or connected to any of their existing social media profiles (hence even though a secret Facebook group would be convenient and easy to use for participants, it is not suitable as group members are able to see each other’s names).

I am a research assistant on a project that seeks to use this method to elicit responses from a cohort of 530 participants and augment the project’s existing use of interviews and workshops.

I have looked at Reddit, Muut and Google Groups but they don’t seem to quite tick all of the boxes. Also in conversation with EthOS.

Any suggestions or tips welcome. Thank you in advance!

Josie

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