CommunityData:Workshop/Archive

This is an archive of past CDSC workshop sessions.

2026[edit]

Jan 16 — Floor: VENI app: digital comm + manual work
Jan 20 — [skipped]
Jan 30 — Matt: Qualifying Exam Presentation Practice: MediaWiki Stewardship
Feb 3 — Yibin: Hybrid Organizing
Feb 13 — Dionna: Train Man Debrief (moved to Friday workshop upon request - I will be late! I teach til 12:20pm PST)
Feb 17 — [skipped]
Feb 27 — Maddie: MA Thesis Outline (Anthropomorphism and Sentiment Across Tasks Types in Reddit Discussions of AI)
Mar 3 — New Student Q&A
Mar 13 — Kaylea + Aditi, Adrian: AI slop work in progress, Prism
Mar 17 — Purdue and UT-Austin Spring Break
Mar 27 — NU and UW Spring Break
Apr 3 — [skipped]
Apr 10 — Zarine: epistemic infrastructure paper
Apr 17 — [skipped]
Apr 24 — Alanna: First case study on EEG reproducibility
May 1 — dylan: arbcom paper?

~~May 8 — Emma: social sim~~
May 15 — dionna: new project proposal/outline
May 22 — matt: SLR pre-submission draft
May 29 — theia: Social.Wiki & Graffiti
Jun 5 — Galen Weld: Improving Online Community Governance across Thousands of Communities
Jun 12 — Manish: Everyday Politics on Instagram and Positioning
Jun 24 — no workshop
Jul 1 — Dylan: ArbCom paper draft (message me if you want to take this workshop slot)
Jul 8 — Mako (as host): The long tale of the tale by James Mellody (journal club/reading group)
Jul 15 — kaz: REU presentation
Jul 22 — Annika: Tech & Prisons (paper draft & short research presentation)
Jul 29 — Dylan (as host): Fiction Reading Group - Culpability by Bruce Holsinger
Aug 5 — Iris: REU Project
Aug 12 — Eric: Institutional communication and Wikipedia
Aug 19 — Yibin: Yibin's job market materials
Aug 26 — matt: MediaWiki Case Studies Manuscript
Sep 2 — [skipped]
Sep 9 — Ran: Moderators' decision making

2025[edit]

Sep 26 — Prospective students: Q&A session
Oct 10 — (Group): Fall retreat at UW
Oct 17 — Hazel: Community dialogue
Oct 24 — Srish: ICA paper
Oct 31 — Dylan: NSF GRFP
Nov 7 — Matt: Community dialogue
Nov 14 — Emily Zou: Visit/talk (CDSC alum, Stanford PhD student)
Nov 21 — Kevin: Digital Goods Value draft or Commercialization of Online Communities lit review draft
Dec 5 — Matt: Practice qual presentation (can release if softblock slots are full)
Dec 12 — Yue Liang: Practice presentation on gamification (UW Foster student invited by Mako)
Dec 19 — Srish: AI provocation to expertise (can release if someone has urgent deadline)
Jul 10 — matt: lit review plan
Jul 17 — kaylea: ai slop work in progress
Jul 24 — kevin/aaron/floor: gig economy noncompliance
Aug 21 — zarine/mako: attacks on public knowledge institutions theory paper
Mar 21 — UW+NU Finals Week
Mar 28 — UW+NU Spring Break
Apr 4 — Zarine: Community Dialogue
Apr 11 — Eric F: draft paper
Apr 18 — Matt: CHASE presentation
May 2 — Kaylea / Matt: Quantum Postcards
May 9 — Billy Brady: (NU, Kellogg, MORS) visit!
May 16 — kevin
May 23 — Haomin: ICA presentation
May 30 — Dionna: tbd
Jan 17 — yibin
Jan 31 — Kaylea: job talk dry run
Feb 7 — Carl
Feb 14 — Manoel Horta Ribeiro: special guest (Princeton, Computer Science, CITP)
Feb 28 — Srish + Nate: Srish research proposal, then Nate's LOI.
Mar 7 — matt
Mar 14 — [skipped]

2024[edit]

Oct 11 — yibin: an study on ecology of online communities
Oct 18 — [skipped]
Oct 25 — Ryan: feedback on job application materials
Nov 1 — Carl: Prospectus
Nov 15 — Sejal: Mock presentation on the social embeddedness of peer production paper
Nov 22 — Charlie: feedback/brainstorming a descriptive volunteer turnover study
Jul 3 — [skipped]
Jul 17 — Molly: tries again
Jul 24 — Matt: [ICSE draft]
Jul 31 — Kaylea & Matt: FOSSY practice
Aug 7 — Reading Group: Rules: A short history of what we live by
Aug 14 — Reading Group: Folk Devils and Moral Panics
Aug 21 — Reading Group: Folk Devils and Moral Panics (Second half)
Aug 28 — Reading Group: Writing the Revolution; Wikipedia and the Survival of Facts in the Digital Age
Apr 3 — Jeremy: CAREER ideas
Apr 17 — [skipped]
Apr 24 — yibin: master thesis draft!
May 1 — Carl
May 8 — matt: something
May 15 — Kevin: Interview Studies
May 29 — ICB: CDSC trivia
Jan 22 — Charlie: Omnibus rule study memos review
Feb 5 — Kaylea: hands on activity -- Past you is the enemy of future you: Automate and streamline your research lifecycle
Feb 12 — Floor: survey study draft
Feb 19 — President's day, no meeting
Mar 4 — Matt: power-sharing & underproduction manuscript
Mar 11 — [skipped]

2023[edit]

Oct 6 — sohw: meta team - reporting back from retreat + task group assignments (let sohw if u want this block tho)
Oct 13 — floor: survey study
Oct 20 — [skipped]
Oct 27 — kaylea: seagl keynote practice (aka industry-oriented job talk)
Nov 3 — dyuti: planning document on a study on narrative transportation and posting behavior
Nov 17 — molly: some sort of final project draft
Dec 1 — [skipped]
Jun 20 — Sohyeon/META: task group review + new allocations! (note this is a Tuesday due to Juneteenth holiday!)
Jul 3 — [skipped]
Jul 10 — Molly: Community Dialogues and Future Public Scholarship
Jul 17 — [skipped]
Jul 31 — [skipped]
Aug 7 — mandi: anti vax / pro vax "data discourses" on Reddit
Aug 28 — [skipped]
Apr 3 — [skipped]
Apr 10 — Sohyeon
Apr 17 — Yibin: (probably) Ecology Project Proposal
Apr 24 — Zarine
May 1 — Jaelle Fuchs: visiting student from U Zurich
May 8 — Kevin: Project Proposalooza
May 15 — [skipped]
May 22 — Charlie: Turnover Case Studies Project
Jun 5 — Kaylea: TBD + floor's codebook
Jan 23 — Carl: Two qualification exam research proposals!
Jan 30 — floor: diss prospectus
Feb 2 — [skipped]
Feb 6 — [skipped]
Feb 13 — Yibin: Incidental discussion and polarized political expression on Reddit
Feb 20 — Xinya(Cindy) Gong: proposal review and get some feedbacks.
Feb 27 — CDSC Purdue: Using ChatGPT to talk to trolls
Mar 6 — Ellie Ross: Core and Peripheral Structure in Online Communities
Mar 13 — floor: syllabus for class next quarter
Mar 20 — sohyeon: idk, something though :)
Mar 27 — [skipped]

2022[edit]

Sep 16 — [skipped]
Sep 30 — Carl: De-federation paper updates.
Oct 6 — Regina: job market material draft (second 30 mins)
Oct 20 — [skipped]
Oct 27 — Nate: measurement error paper
Nov 3 — Molly dB
Nov 10 — [skipped]
Nov 17 — Sohyeon, Charlie, Aaron: Botstacking CHI paper + reviewer comments + CDSC Membership
Nov 24 — [skipped]
Dec 1 — [skipped]
Dec 8 — kaylea / divya
Dec 15 — [skipped]
Jul 5 — Kaylea: probably CSCW paper something something
Jul 19 — Carl: whatever needs the most feedback at this point. :)
Jul 26 — Aaron: cross-sector collaborations in King County
Aug 2 — Molly: tbd
Aug 23 — Floor: diss plans
Aug 30 — Kaylea: book review of The Conversational Firm
Jun 17 — [skipped]
Jun 27 — [skipped]
Jul 11 — [skipped]
Aug 8 — Isabelle Catherine Langrock
Apr 19 — Regina and Sejal: CHI Practice Talks (Nothing circulated in advance)
Apr 26 — Sohyeon: discord bot study, initial memos
May 17 — [skipped]
May 24 — [skipped]
Jun 14 — Katharina: Feedback for CSCW Doctoral Consortium submission draft
Apr 22 — [skipped]
Apr 29 — [skipped]
May 6 — Carl: wikia data descriptor paper draft
May 20 — [skipped]
Jun 3 — [skipped]
Jan 10 — Nate: Notes on a methodological paper on the effects of measurement error in machine learning models on research.
Jan 31 — Jeremy: Draft of revisions for "A systems approach to studying online organizations"
Feb 7 — St3f: Defense proposal draft.
Feb 21 — Carl: Moderation and Content Policies on the Fediverse (journal article draft).
Feb 28 — Molly: modifiability (including concepts like right to repair) and consent in medical devices (thesis)
Mar 7 — Zarine: Ideological capture/disinformation in small language Wikis project
Mar 14 — Charlie: TBD (Dissertation Proposal 1 pagers)
Jan 28 — Regina: Feedback for CSCW revision
Feb 4 — Floor: Fellowship app
Feb 11 — [skipped]
Feb 25 — Yichen Shen: (NU sociology student visiting)!
Mar 4 — [skipped]
Mar 11 — Regina: Dissertation Proposal draft (Workshop!)

2021[edit]

Oct 1 — Floor: Online labor SLR
Oct 8 — Nate: No Community Can Do Everything (revisions for CSCW)
Oct 15 — Sohyeon: Information loss project (to be WWW2022 submission)
Oct 22 — St3f: Coraland Citizen Science App for Families (R&R for CSCW)
Oct 29 — Nick V: The Theory of Critical Mass and Data Leverage
Nov 5 — Charlie: CSCW "Why These Rules?" submission / feedback on reviews and paper
Nov 12 — Sneha: Proposal for an NSF (or other) proposal on community governance
Nov 19 — Carl
Dec 3 — Regina: Three dissertation ideas
Dec 10 — Kaylea: Reviews & Revision Planning for the Qualities of Quality systematic lit review paper