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

[Alex Leavitt]

Reminder: deadline for this workshop is January 10th!

Hope to see you there,
Alex


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


On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 5:17 PM, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>
>