📰 The final newsletter of the PARTES project is now live!

Find highlights from our closing event in Vienna, awareness raising work across Europe, and an introduction to our new initiative PARTESS-COM.

📬 Read it here: https://partes-project.eu/so/ddPUX4p_K?languageTag=en

#partesResearch #extremist #FediResearch #interfaith #prevention #SecurityStudies #CommunityResilience #EUProjects

"A New #Research Module for Identifying Both #Toxic and #Prosocial Interactions in #OnlineDiscourse

Communalytic Introduces #CivilityAnalyzerModule - Social Media Lab
https://socialmedialab.ca/2025/06/17/communalytic-introduces-civility-analyzer/

#socialmedia
#researchfediverse
#fediresearch
#datacollection
#SocialMediaPlatforms #Communalytic
#socialsciences
#dataanalysis

"In the evolving social media landscape, decentralised platforms like Mastodon, an open-source, federated platform, have become notable alternatives to traditional centralised networks, offering user autonomy and community governance" (S. 19).

Eine qualitative Befragungsstudie der University of #Oxford von Mastodon-Admins zu Motivationen, Herausforderungen, Strategien und Aussichten beim Betreiben einer Instanz, mit besonderem Fokus auf marginalisierte Gruppen. Lesenswert!

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3687059

#FediResearch #Survey #MastoAdmin‌s #SocialSciences

> [C]ommunity boundary #blocklists [have] incited conflict on the #Fediverse, with many users left cut off from their communities …. Using … #GroundedTheory, we interviewed 9 Fediverse users, including a mix of community boundary blocklist curators, server staff, and regular users, to determine key tensions between community moderation and mutual aid practices

2 May 2025, #openaccess: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3710919
Erika Melder, Ada Lerner, Michael Ann DeVito

#FediScience #FediResearch #moderation

#research #fediresearch #fediacademia

On June 22 and 23 I took part in Mastodon Symposium. A couple of dozens of scholars coming from various disciplines (from media studies to digital humanities and computer science) gathered in hybrid to present their ongoing work focused on "all things Mastodon".

I presented my (very old) research exploring the concept of online "safer spaces" and the role of federated architectures in developing alternative forms of content moderation. This piece was prepared together with my dear friend Francesca Musiani.

Some of the videos, including mine, are accessible for download or streaming. Please enjoy and feel free to share

https://mypads2.framapad.org/mypads/?/mypads/group/mastodon-gq2wpy9r5/pad/view/public-videos-vtl9493c

#миграции #digitalrefugee #research #fediresearch

On digital migrations

Digital migration is not a linear process, and the metaphor of migration itself has its limits. Unlike geographical migration, a digital one is not always unilateral and not always exclusive. A user can be co-present in multiple online worlds, and navigate in a “multi-tool setting” as their online personas and threat models are intrinsically multiple. Users may be present on both WhatsApp and Element, or on Twitter and Mastodon, and often cross-post on several platforms manually (or using automated solutions, bots or bridges – before it became restricted by Musk), in order to negotiate parts of their online identity as well as multiply their online presence, and address different target groups associated with those platforms contributing to several distinct technocultures.

(exerpt from our article accessible here:
https://hal.science/hal-03930548v1/document)

#fediresearch #фединаука

14 июля участвую в конфе Теплицы Соц Технологий про федеративные мессенджеры. Поговорю про Delta Chat и в целом про то почему architecture matters. Подключайтесь

https://te-st.org/events/nonconference/