[Air-L] New paper on Mastodon and platform governance

[Robert W Gehl]

Hello, all --

I normally don't promote pre-print papers, but fellow AOIR member Diana 
Zulli and I just learned that Information, Communication and Society is 
publishing our paper on Mastodon. It's pretty good timing, I think!

The paper is titled "The Digital Covenant: Non-Centralized Platform 
Governance on the Mastodon Social Network." It's available as a 
pre-print in H-Commons: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:49433/

I'm hoping it helps the AOIR community better understand Mastodon (and 
the fediverse, more broadly) as members consider switching to that platform.

I also hope that, if the fediverse turns out to be a viable area of 
research for AOIR, this paper can help spark more research into the 
particular ways in which these non-centralized systems engage in 
platform governance beyond the corporate social media model.

Regards,

Rob

-- 
Robert W. Gehl (he/him/his)
Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University
Fulbright Scholar, University of Calgary
www.robertwgehl.org | @robertwgehl

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