Bots are increasingly being used for governance-related purposes in online communities,
yet no instrumentation exists for measuring how users assess their beneficial or detrimental …

In the era of digitalization, the study of interaction between teachers and students in social
networks gains particular relevance. The aim of this research is to monitor these virtual …

Much early communication research was inspired by systems theory. This approach
emphasizes that individuals and groups use communication to interact with and respond to …

What types of governance arrangements make some self-governed online groups more
vulnerable to disinformation campaigns? We present a qualitative comparative analysis of …

For geographically dispersed communities, including professional, academic, hobbyist, and
fandom communities, in-person events and meetups play a crucial role in the function and …

Bots have become critical for managing online communities on platforms, especially to
match the increasing technical sophistication of online harms. However, community leaders …

Online communities offer their members various benefits, such as information access, social
and emotional support, and entertainment. Despite the important role that founders play in …

Conventional algorithms for training language models (LMs) with human feedback rely on
preferences that are assumed to account for an" average" user, disregarding subjectivity and …