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Kaylea Champion's dissertation defense: Monday July 22 9:30am (Pacific)
by Benj. Mako Hill 17 Jul '24

17 Jul '24

Greetings! Kaylea Champion's PhD dissertation defense is scheduled for next Monday July 22 at 9:30am Seattle time. The public portion will not take more than 90 minutes. The title is: "Social and Technical Sources of Risk in Sustaining Digital Infrastructure" and the defense is open to the public. Anyone is welcome to come. That date/time is officially tentative until there is final confirmation from all members of Kaylea's reading committee that the dissertation is ready to defend but that might not happen for a couple more days and we wanted to let you know with some time in advance. The plan is to hold the defense in this Zoom room: URL: https://washington.zoom.us/my/makohill Number: 951 959 3783 Kaylea will give a talk for 30-45 minutes or so to present her dissertation research and then there will be time for questions from her committee and from the audience. Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill https://mako.cc/academic/

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Year-in-Review Blog Post
by Madison Deyo 06 Jun '24

06 Jun '24

Hey everyone, Here is the etherpad<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/etherpad.communitydata.science/p/2023-24…> to add all your wonderful accomplishments from the 2023-24 year. Please finish this up by Friday, June 7th. Thanks, Madison

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Year-In-Review Blog Post
by Madison Deyo 05 Jun '24

05 Jun '24

Hey everyone, Here is the etherpad<https://etherpad.communitydata.science/p/2023-24accomplishments> to add all your wonderful accomplishments from the 2023-24 year. Please finish this up by Friday, June 7th. Thanks, Madison

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Summer Meeting Schedules
by Madison Deyo 03 Jun '24

03 Jun '24

Hey y’all, Since everyone is wrapping up the school year and summer is starting, we’re going to be switching to our new meeting time (11:30 ET) starting June 19th. The global meeting this week will be at the regular meeting time. We’ll also be skipping over the meeting on Wednesday, June 12th. As a side note, please send me any publications or accomplishments you’d like acknowledged in the year-in-review blog post by Friday (June 7th). You can email them to me (madison.deyo(a)northwestern.edu<mailto:madison.deyo@northwestern.edu>) or send them over IRC. Thanks, Madison

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TODAY: The Challenges and Opportunities of Federated Systems
by Madison Deyo 23 May '24

23 May '24

Hi everyone, TODAY at 4.p.m. CT The Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design and the Community Data Science Collective are partnering for our virtual Thought Leader Dialogue “Decentralizing Social Media: The Challenges and Opportunities of Federate Systems”. Join us for an engaging conversation about the challenges and opportunities of decentralized social media. This panel features designers, leaders, and researchers involved in federated social media and will address opportunities for effective design and governance in this space. Please see the poster below for more details. This event is free and open to all. If you’d like to attend, please register for the virtual dialogue here<https://northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TreKyUadRi6CtIyDZ2Yu9Q>. [A brochure with a group of people Description automatically generated]

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May 23rd, Thought Leader Dialogue: Decentralizing Social Media
by Madison Deyo 20 May '24

20 May '24

Hi all, The Center for Human-Computer Interaction + Design<https://www.hci.northwestern.edu/> is excited to be collaborating with the Community Data Science Collective (CDSC)<https://wiki.communitydata.science/Main_Page> for our virtual Thought Leader Dialogue titled “Decentralizing Social Media: The challenges and opportunities of federated systems” on May 23rd, from 4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. CT. Join us for an engaging conversation about the challenges and opportunities of decentralized social media. This panel features designers, leaders, and researchers involved in federated social media and will address opportunities for effective design and governance in this space. Please see the poster below for more details. This event is free and open to all. If you’d like to attend, please register for the virtual dialogue here<https://northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TreKyUadRi6CtIyDZ2Yu9Q>. [A brochure with a group of people Description automatically generated]

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May 1st Workshop Material
by Jaelle Fuchs 28 Apr '23

28 Apr '23

Hi everyone, Most of you have (virtually) met me at this point, still: I am Jaelle a PhD students from the University of Zurich and currently visiting the CDSC lab at Northwestern. In the workshop on Monday May 1st we will be discussing some of my work. One thing I want to achieve during my time here is to get started on a paper about the role device access plays in people’s online participation, the interview data is collected and most interviews are transcribed but I haven’t gotten farther than that yet – so thoughts about my line of argument are very welcome! I am also happy to talk more about this in the workshop. Attached is an updated position paper I submitted to an ICA pre-conference earlier this year which 1. Outlines my past work nicely and 2. Outlines one of the main arguments/motivations behind the planned paper very well. It is also pretty short. I hope it provides a good conversation basis and I look forward to talking to you all on Monday. Best, Jaelle PS: Finally, added myself to the people section on the wiki 😉 _____________________________________________ Jaelle Fuchs, MA | Pronouns: She/Her/Hers Assistentin / Research and Teaching Assistant University of Zurich IKMZ - Department of Communication and Media Research Andreasstrasse 15, CH-8050 Zurich, Switzerland T: +41 44 634 46 88 | jaellefuchs.com

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Community Data Science Collective Open House: Friday October 14th, 3:30-5pm @ UW
by Benj. Mako Hill 03 Oct '22

03 Oct '22

Greetings friends and colleagues! What: Community Data Science Collective Open Lab When: Friday, October 14th, 3:30-5pm Where: Seattle, UW, CMU 306: Directions are here: https://wiki.communitydata.science/Community_Data_Science_Lab_(UW) It's been such a long time since we've had an in person event! If you're in the Seattle area, please join us Friday, October 14th, for an informal "open lab" at the University of Washington Community Data Science Collective (CDSC). Our CDSC colleagues from Purdue University and Northwestern University will be in town as well, so there's even more reason to come! The open lab is an opportunity to learn about our research and activities, connect with us about project ideas, catch up over snacks and beverages, and pick up a sticker or two. We will have no presentations but there will be several posters up describing projects we are working on. We study online communities and platforms: participation, governance, inequality, collaboration, learning, moderation, and organizing in places like Reddit, Wikipedia, Discord, Linux, gig work platforms, and more! You can learn a bit more about the CDSC here: https://wiki.communitydata.science/Main_Page Whether you can make it not, you can also sign up on our extremely low traffic community mailing list: https://communitydata.science/mailman3/postorius/lists/community.communityd… We look forward to seeing you on Friday! Regards, Mako, on behalf of the whole collective -- Benjamin Mako Hill https://mako.cc/academic/

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Nate TeBlunthuis' dissertation defense: THURSDAY September 23 9am (Pacific)
by Benj. Mako Hill 17 Sep '21

17 Sep '21

Greetings! Nate TeBlunthuis' PhD dissertation defense is scheduled for this Thursday September 23 at 9-11am Seattle time. The public portion will likely take about 90 minutes. The title is: "Ecology of Online Communities" and the defense is open to the public. Anyone is welcome to come. That date/time is officially tentative until there is final confirmation from all members of Nate's reading committee that the dissertation is ready to defend but that might not happen for a few more days and we wanted to let you know with some time in advance. The plan is to hold the defense on in my personal Zoom room, which I am slightly embarassed to admit exists: URL: https://washington.zoom.us/my/makohill Number: 951 959 3783 Nate will give a talk for 30-40 minutes or so to present his dissertation research and then there will be time for questions from his committee and from the audience. Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill https://mako.cc/academic/

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[opensym2021@easychair.org: [OpenSym 2021] (Free) Registration is open!]
by Benj. Mako Hill 12 Sep '21

12 Sep '21

Greetings! OpenSym 2021 is happening this week from Wednesday through Friday. It's online and free and is structured as two 50 minutes session a day. They're 7-9am Pacific and more gental times for those who live Eastward. AND... our own Nate TeBlunthuis is presenting on Friday! :) Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill https://mako.cc/academic/

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