Hi everyone, Quick reminder that the Research Showcase will be starting in less than an hour! Join us at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1xYwRw1rHU.
Best, Kinneret On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 4:38 PM Kinneret Gordon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, February > 21, at 8:30 AM PST / 16:30 UTC. Find your local time here > <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1708533000>. The theme for this showcase > is *Platform Governance and Policies*. > > You are welcome to watch via the YouTube stream: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1xYwRw1rHU. As usual, you can join the > conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes live. > > This month's presentation: > Sociotechnical Designs for Democratic and Pluralistic Governance of Social > Media and AIBy *Amy X. Zhang, University of Washington*Decisions about > policies when using widely-deployed technologies, including social media > and more recently, generative AI, are often made in a centralized and > top-down fashion. Yet these systems are used by millions of people, with a > diverse set of preferences and norms. Who gets to decide what are the > rules, and what should the procedures be for deciding them---and must we > all abide by the same ones? In this talk, I draw on theories and lessons > from offline governance to reimagine how sociotechnical systems could be > designed to provide greater agency and voice to everyday users and > communities. This includes the design and development of: 1) personal > moderation and curation controls that are usable and understandable to > laypeople, 2) tools for authoring and carrying out governance to suit a > community's needs and values, and 3) decision-making workflows for > large-scale democratic alignment that are legitimate and consistent. > Best,Kinneret > -- > > Kinneret Gordon > > Lead Research Community Officer > > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > > > > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
