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The Pushshift Reddit Dataset
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2020
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Reddit, the so called "front page of the Internet," in particular has been the subject of numerous scientific studies. ...
The Pushshift Reddit dataset makes it possible for social media researchers to reduce time spent in the data collection, cleaning, and storage phases of their projects. ...
Reddit's ecosystem of subreddits are primarily governed by volunteer moderators with substantial discretion over creating and enforcing rules about user behavior and content moderation [45, 113] . ...
arXiv:2001.08435v1
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Governing online goods: Maturity and formalization in Minecraft, Reddit, and World of Warcraft communities
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2022
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First, institutional formalization, the size and complexity of an online community's governance system, is generally positively associated with maturity, as measured by age, population size, or degree ...
scholar Elinor Ostrom to 80,000 communities across 3 platforms: the sandbox game Minecraft, the MMO game World of Warcraft, and Reddit. ...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors wish to thank members of the institutionalgrammar.org, communitydata.science, and metagov.org research communities; Kabir Sahni and Jingyuan Liang for help on the WoW data; ...
arXiv:2202.01317v1
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Incels on Reddit: A study in social norms and decentralised moderation
2022
First Monday
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Incels — an Internet subculture that ascribes to deeply misogynistic beliefs — flourished on Reddit before several major subreddits were progressively banned. ...
We draw on archived Reddit data to provide a detailed analysis of how incel subreddits adapt to and resist pressure from Reddit and other users to comply with the site-wide rules and develop and maintain ...
Characterizing an ecosystem of governance,” Proceedings of the Twelfth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media , at https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/15033, accessed 8 January ...
doi:10.5210/fm.v27i6.12575
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Too Crowded for Crowdsourced Journalism: Reddit, Portability, and Citizen Participation in the Syrian Crisis
2018
Canadian Journal of Communication
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This article explores the complexity of citizen participation in social media and crowdsourced journalism by utilizing the case of r/SyrianCivilWar, the sub-community of Reddit where users discuss the ...
Syrian crisis.Analysis In examining the limitations and affordances of the platform, the article identifies features that characterize the r/SyrianCivilWar community, namely: algorithmic driven public ...
The prevailing media ecology in Syria is characterized by absolute authoritarianism, where the government maintains total control of information and communication (Ghadbian, 2001) . ...
doi:10.22230/cjc.2019v44n3a3377
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Subreddit Links Drive Community Creation and User Engagement on Reddit
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2022
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By way of an extensive observational study along with several natural experiments using the entire history of Reddit, we were able to determine that (1) subreddit links are a significant driver of new ...
Based on the ubiquity of these references, we have undertaken a study on subreddit links on Reddit, with the goal of understanding their impact on both the referenced subreddit, and on the subreddit landscape ...
However, not all community features are universally predictive; rather, they are unique environments, each governed by a distinct set of rules (Horne, Adali, and Sikdar 2017) . ...
arXiv:2203.10155v1
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Using data from reddit, public deliberation, and surveys to measure public opinion about autonomous vehicles
2021
Public Opinion Quarterly
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It then compares findings and implications from analyses of public opinion about autonomous vehicles from traditional surveys, results of public deliberation, and analyses of Reddit posts, applying a newly ...
the dialogic characteristics of different social media, and the range of issue publics and marginalized voices that different surveys and social media forums can attract. ...
The variety of existing online ecosystems potentially provide such environments. ...
doi:10.1093/poq/nfab021
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Over-Time Trends in Incivility on Social Media: Evidence From Political, Non-Political, and Mixed Sub-Reddits Over Eleven Years
2021
Frontiers in Political Science
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Using longitudinal data from Reddit that accounts for 95% of the entire Reddit universe across 11 years and relying on the combination of supervised machine learning models and traditional statistical ...
inference, the study found that incivility consistently represents around 10% of total Reddit comments. ...
Private sub-reddits usually have rules governing admittance; users receive an invitation once they meet the admission requirements. ...
doi:10.3389/fpos.2021.741605
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Toward a Post-Apocalyptic Rule of Law
2021
Laws
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overload, e.g., the threat to the Rule of Law presented by an outgoing American President who refuses to accept the verdict of the electorate; the threat to public health posed by persistent vaccine misinformation ...
The central argument of the paper is that before media pundits and policy-makers expressed their surprise at the fragility of the Rule of Law in the "unprecedented" ascent of Trump, the lethal capacity ...
Conflicts of Interest: The author declares no conflict of interest. ...
doi:10.3390/laws10030065
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How Developers Talk About Personal Data and What It Means for User Privacy
2021
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
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In this paper, we conducted a qualitative analysis of a sample of 207 threads (4772 unique posts) mentioning different forms of personal data from the /r/androiddev forum on Reddit. ...
We started with bottom-up open coding on the sampled posts to develop a typology of discussions about personal data use and conducted follow-up analyses to understand what types of posts elicited in-depth ...
During this process, the coder first reviewed the discussion starters of the 207 threads, and developed an initial set of codes that characterized the themes of these posts. ...
doi:10.1145/3432919
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Calvinball: Users' Rights, Public Choice Theory and Rules Mutable Games
2018
Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice
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Using the game of Calvinball (created by artist Bill Watterson in his long-running comic strip Calvin & Hobbes) as an illustrative device, and drawing on public choice theory's account of how political ...
This article proposes the "rules mutable game" as a metaphor for understanding the operation of copyright reform. ...
For an overview of the history of Canadian legislative reform efforts, see Government of Canada, Canadian Heritage, "History of Copyright in Canada," online: <http://canada.pch.gc.ca/eng/1454685408763> ...
doi:10.22329/wyaj.v35i0.5110
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Pushing Back on Stricter Copyright ISP Liability Rules
2021
Michigan Technology Law Review
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Any meaningful reform of ISP liability rules should consider the interests of a wide range of stakeholders. This includes U.S. ...
The Study's almost exclusively pro–copyright industry stances on reform of virtually every aspect of the rules notably shortchanges other stakeholder interests. ...
Does the DSM Directive's definition of an online content sharing service include, for example, dating services such as Tinder, image-sharing services such as Imgur, commentary sites such as Reddit, news ...
doi:10.36645/mtlr.27.2.pushing
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Decentralizing Platform Power: A Design Space of Multi-level Governance in Online Social Platforms
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2022
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governance, allowing us to describe how a variety of platforms, including Reddit, Twitter, and YouTube, incorporate varying forms of decentralized governance. ...
Drawing from literature from organizational theory, federalism, and polycentricity on analogous offline institutions, we characterize the landscape of existing platforms through the lens of multi-level ...
Frey and Sumner show how player-run Minecraft communities self-organized around an emergent volunteer ecosystem of shared governance plugins [49] . ...
arXiv:2108.12529v3
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Assembly in populations of social networks
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2018
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structure predicts outcomes, such as organization success or ecosystem health. ...
In-depth studies of sociotechnical systems are largely limited to single instances. ...
Now, complex sociotechnical ecosystems characterize our homes, social lives, and workplaces, making this challenge as relevant as ever. ...
arXiv:1811.01452v1
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The impact of coronavirus on business: developing service research agenda for a post-coronavirus world
2020
Journal of service theory and practice
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We used an artificial intelligence–based algorithm to scrape the data with business-related search terms, clean it and analyse the discussion topics.FindingsWe show the key topics that address the impact ...
posts on a coronavirus subreddit ("r/coronavirus") and identifying the main research streams that are guiding the research agenda for a post-coronavirus world.Design/methodology/approachWe use data from reddit ...
CZECH REPUBLIC-Government bans export of respirators and regulates their sale in order to have stock for medical staff. (Reddit #4277). ...
doi:10.1108/jstp-07-2020-0180
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Mobilizing the Trump Train: Understanding Collective Action in a Political Trolling Community
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2018
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We performed a quantitative longitudinal analysis of more than 16 million comments from one of the most popular and disruptive political trolling communities, the subreddit /r/The\_Donald (T\D). ...
We conclude by providing data-backed design implications for designers of civic media. ...
2018) or #ShariaOur-Daughters to take Islam ideologies to an absurd extreme (Reddit 2016b) . ...
arXiv:1806.00429v1
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