New open-access journal article on urban/spatial social media from the Local Content Governance project 🌍📈🌆! 📜 Ballatore, A., Rodgers, S., McLoughlin, L., & Moore, S. (2024). Facebook city: Place-named groups as urban communication infrastructure in Greater London. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. DOI:10.1177/23998083231224136 [web] [pdf] Figure 1: Distribution of groups and … Continue reading Enter the Facebook City
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Localizing content moderation in Facebook groups
Pleased to share this short paper written with Scott Rodgers et al. The paper is discussed in an excellent presentation by Liam McLoughlin: https://youtu.be/do_JWl1DZvs Abstract. This paper contributes to the burgeoning literature on content moderation by focusing on its practice in relation to localized social media contexts, an area which remains under-researched. It makes two … Continue reading Localizing content moderation in Facebook groups
Research project: Localizing Content Governance
This project is led by Dr Scott Rodgers (PI) in collaboration with Dr Susan Moore (Co-I) and Dr Andrea Ballatore (Co-I), funded by a grant from Facebook Research (USD 70,000). Localizing Content Governance in Place-named Facebook Groups (2020/21) is a systematic study into how Administrators and Moderators govern contributions in Facebook Groups relating to named … Continue reading Research project: Localizing Content Governance
Cultural Geo-Analytics Lab 