[Air-L] CFP & Conference Announcement: All Things in Moderation 2025

[Venessa Paech]

Dear AOIR Members,

I hope you are safe and well.

I'm sharing our Call for Papers and Speaker Contributions for the All Things in Moderation Conference, returning for a third year - 15-16 May, 2025.

ALL THINGS IN MODERATION is a diverse global gathering of practitioners, scholars, policy-makers, and all those invested in creating safe and thriving online spaces. The conference is fully virtual, to protect participant and attendee safety, diversity and accessibility.

CFP Due: March 15, 2025
THEME: MODERATING THIRD SPACES

In 2024, ATIM explored moderation in a world of poly-crisis. These challenges persist, with new uncertainties and inequities. In 2025 we are focused on building and restoring community through the power of third spaces.

Our shared digital spaces offer critical civic infrastructure and invaluable third spaces, providing we can maintain and nurture them. Moderation is uniquely positioned to empower pro-social, civic engagement and constructive mobilisation, and to support bridging capital across diverse and polarised groups and ecosystems. Moderation and online community practices can also help us better understand, and counter, socially destructive forces.

Final papers are due in May 2025 for presentation at the conference.

Email Abstracts or Proposals of 300 words with a short biography to venessa.paech at sydney.edu.au<mailto:venessa.paech at sydney.edu.au> by March 15, 2025.

We invite research contributions for ATIM 2024 that focus on the following and related topics:

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Governance for pro-sociality
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Community management as bridging capital
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Moderation in polarised communities
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Ethics of care and feminist ethics in online communities and moderation
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Navigating new regulatory and ‘dys’-regulatory challenges
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Moderation for vulnerable communities
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Moderation and human rights
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Community formation in unsafe spaces
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How technology can support moderation in turbulent times

We welcome proposals for 20 minute papers or panel proposals (with several papers) exploring any and all aspects of these topics - or others.

In particular, we welcome submissions from non-dominant voices in academic or media on these issues, and from the global South.

Learn more, and submit your details via: https://www.allthingsinmoderation.org/call-for-papers

We welcome any queries you may have.

Kind regards,

VENESSA PAECH, BFA, MA
She/Hers
PhD Student | Community in the Age of Machine Culture
Department of Media and Communication | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Lecturer: Community Management

Phone: + 61 0435 217 315