[Air-L] CFP: Join a "research hackathon" on commenting!

[Alex Leavitt]

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 at gmail.com by 8:00pm PST on January 10th.

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Alex Leavitt, Ph.D.
Quantitative UX Researcher, Facebook Research
http://alexleavitt.com
Twitter: @alexleavitt <http://twitter.com/alexleavitt>