SMGI Spring 2023 Convening: Beyond Moderation
Overview
Since the Social Media Governance Initiative (SMGI) launched in 2018, we have witnessed many of the biggest online platforms continue to face increasing challenges ranging from harassment and hate speech to misinformation. Over this time, many of these platforms have made stunning investments constructing massive content moderation apparatuses consisting of complex policies, sophisticated machine learning, and thousands of human moderators reviewing and removing millions of pieces of content. However, as these content moderation systems continue to mature, many of the issues they seek to alleviate persist. Recently, many have started looking beyond content moderation instead turning towards broader platform governance and design for solutions.
The SMGI/JC hosted a two-day in-person conference on Thursday and Friday March 30th and 31st, 2023 at the Yale Law School. This two-day conference will included presentations from a cross-disciplinary group of scholars and industry practitioners discussing their work exploring a range of issues of online governance.
Funding
This convening was funded by the The Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund.
Information
Dates: March 30th - 31, 2023 9am - 4pm EST.
Agenda: Click here to view the agenda.
Following the convening, a series of essays were published by three emerging scholars who were invited to present at the event.
Team
Williams B. Ransford Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
Director of the Social Media Governance Initiative