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Nathan Gregory; 30079225 Daniel Trainer; 3016273 Jamie Lewry; 30067134,…

- - - - Norms
        
        Free speech assumption: platforms should provide a space for all kinds of speech, no matter how violent, racist, sexist, transphobic or homophobic (Whitney v. California)
        
        Public VS Private Company
        
        Social Media Companies: dominated by cisgender, educated, straight white men - which shapes the products that are created and how they are regulated…
      - Meritocratic organization
      - Democratic Crowdsource Community
        
        Personal liberty > Community safety
  - - - Rhetorical act that shapes how we use and understand it
  - - - Harrasment
        
        Punishments
        
        Asymetrical
        
        Rewarding Abuse
    - - Doxxing
    - - Upvoting/Downvoting system - an illusion of democracy
- - - - YPP policies: YouTube Partner Program policies that determine who can monetize their videos and how.
- - - - Dominant voices remain privileged (algorithm design politics help them out)
    - - Case Study: Unidan
        
        Fan base/Account (/r/UnidanFans)
        
        Micro-celebrity - “Micro-celebrity can be understood as a mindset and set of practices in which audience is viewed as a fan base; popularity is maintained through ongoing fan management; and self-presentation is carefully constructed to be consumed by others”
        
        Persona: geek masculinity
        
        geek masculinity which dominates many online cultures (reddit included) continues to marginalize, intimidate, and silence women, sexual minorities, people of color, and their allies.
        
        demonstration intoxicating and often nepotistic nature of micro-celebrity in spaces like reddit
        
        Fans likely helped with his vote manipulation - voting up an standing up in arguments just because it was Unidan and ignoring more qualified speakers and positions
        
        Power of algorithms - “stabilizers of trust” that suggest a kind of automated objectivity - designed by someone and therefore political/ideological
        
        vote manipulation is an emblematic example of how algorithms become entangled with user practice, changing, “how users reshape their practices to suit the algorithms they depend on, and how they can turn algorithms into terrains for political contest”
        
        Gendered harassment (doxxing) and threats (death)
        
        complicit in perpetuating reddit’s often-misogynistic view of women - posted a NSFW compilation of nude women and claimed it was the real Unidan
        
        Punishment
        
        Shadowbanned - his comments and postings would no longer appear (nor would his account page be accessible) to anyone but him
        
        multiple puppet accounts to downvote comments by those with whom he disagreed and upvote his own new submissions (gaming the algorithm)
  - - - Popularity
        
        “Karma” - score based on up and down votes + scammer prevention score
  - - - Crowdsourcing
        
        a place for cisgendered straight men where women are objects of sexualized desire rather than valid members of the community.
      - /r/showerbeer, /r/penmanshipporn, /r/ggggg
- - - - Engagement: The level of interaction and activity that a piece of content generates on social media.