Editing Building Successful Online Communities (Spring 2021) (section)

=== June 1 (Tuesday): Guest Lecturers on Building Community on TikTok & Content Moderation ===

'''Guests:'''

* Hunter Brown
* [https://ckiene.org/ Charles Kiene]

'''Required readings:'''

* [https://artsci.washington.edu/news/2021-04/creating-community-tiktok Creating Community on TikTok] — Short article by the UW College of Arts and Sciences about a Hunter Brown and his experience building TikTok
* [https://www.tiktok.com/@hunterkaimi @hunterkaimi on TikTok]

'''Optional readings:'''

* Jiang, Jialun "Aaron," Charles Kiene, Skyler Middler, Jed R. Brubaker, and Casey Fiesler. 2019. “Moderation Challenges in Voice-Based Online Communities on Discord.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 3 (CSCW): 55:1–55:23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3359157. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1145/3359157}}
* Kiene, Charles, Jialun “Aaron” Jiang, and Benjamin Mako Hill. 2019. “Technological Frames and User Innovation: Exploring Technological Change in Community Moderation Teams.” Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 3 (CSCW): 44:1–44:23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3359146. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1145/3359146}}

'''Plan:'''

: In the first part of class (~6-7pm), we'll have an interview and question and answer session with graduating UW Department of Communication student Hunter Brown. Hunter Brown posted his first video to TikTok in late December 2019 and started the undergraduate version of this class (COM482) in the first week of January 2020. Over the quarter that Hunter was taking the class, he grew his followers to more than 15,500 using own creativity, intuition, and some of the concepts and techniques from the course. Hunter has since grown his TikTok community to more than 300,000 followers.

:Check out Hunter's TikTok, linked from the syllabus, and come ready to ask him any questions you have. I'll start us out by interviewing Hunter about his experience growing an online community and then we'll open up to your questions.

:In the second part of the class (~7-8pm), we'll hear from Charlie Kiene (a PhD student at UW) about his research on content moderation on Discord. He'll be talking about two papers that are linked in the optional readings above. You'll probably get more of the conversation if you read the papers in advance, but doing so is not a requirement. Your first priority should be your projects. Charlie studies governance and content moderation more generally and has been doing a bunch of work on Reddit so I'm sure he'll be able to answer questions you have about that as well.

:In both cases, all I'm asking you to do is to be engaged and to ask questions.