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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial;color:black">Call for papers SWARM Symposium<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial;color:black">University of Sydney August 20<sup>th<o:p></o:p></sup></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><sup><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial;color:black">9.30am-12.30pm followed by
</span></sup><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial;color:black"><a href="https://swarmconference.com.au/"><sup>SWARM</sup></a><sup> conference workshops</sup><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial;color:black">Platform governance for safer online communities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial;color:black">Building cohesive, productive online communities depends on good governance relationships – particularly with the platforms that host our conversations and content. But increasingly
major international communications platform providers are being portrayed as reluctant to control the violence and misinformation they host, and slow to provide moderation tools that help community managers minimise harmful content and deal with bad behaviour.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial;color:black">In light of the
<a href="https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/16-05-2019/the-christchurch-call-full-text/">
Christchurch Call</a> and global debates about how social media platforms and their user base might be better governed, the 2019 SWARM Symposium invites papers on all aspects of platform governance including:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial">Choosing platforms: governance considerations in community building<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial">Asymmetric relations: negotiating ToS with platform providers<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial">Regulating live streaming and synchronous chat<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial">Identifying and responding to misinformation campaigns<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial">Controlling hate: moderation tactics and intervention styles<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial">Caring for managers & moderators: mental health considerations
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial">Surveillance technologies and their impact on user<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial">AI and its impacts on community development<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial">The platformisation of customer service and community relations<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial;color:black">Abstracts should be 300 words with title, author name, affiliation, email and phone contact. Please send them to Dr Fiona Martin:
<a href="mailto:fiona.martin@sydney.edu.au">fiona.martin@sydney.edu.au</a> by <b>
July 12<sup>th</sup>.</b> Two travel scholarships will be available to postgraduate students providing long abstracts of 800 words.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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SWARM Symposium keynote speaker will be Associate Professor Nic Suzor from Queensland University of Technology’s Law Faculty. Nic studies the
</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">regulation of networked society, including the
</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial;color:black">governance of the internet and social networks, the peer economy, digital copyright, and knowledge commons. He is the Legal Lead of the <a href="http://creativecommons.org.au/">Creative Commons
Australia</a> project and deputy chair of <a href="http://digitalrightswatch.org.au/">Digital Rights Watch</a>, an Australian non-profit which seeks to ensure that Australians are equipped, empowered and enabled to uphold their digital rights.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Arial;color:black">The SWARM symposium is held in conjunction with the annual
<a href="https://swarmconference.com.au/">SWARM Australian Community managers conference</a> held at the University of Sydney on August 21<sup>st</sup>.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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