Inclusion at Scale: Deploying a Community-Driven Moderation Intervention on Twitch
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Brewer, Johanna; Romine, Morgan; Taylor, TL
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Harassment, especially of marginalized individuals, on networked gaming and social media platforms has been identified as a significant issue, yet few HCI practitioners have attempted to create interventions tackling toxicity online. Aligning ourselves with the growing cohort of design activists, we present a case study of the GLHF pledge, an interactive public awareness campaign promoting positivity in video game live streaming. We discuss the design and deployment of a community-driven moderation intervention for GLHF, intended to empower the inclusive communities emerging on Twitch. After offering a preliminary report on the effects we have observed based on the more than 370,000 gamers who have participated to date, the paper concludes with a reflection on the challenges and opportunities of using design activism to positively intervene in large-scale media platforms.
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2020Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Comparative Media Studies/WritingJournal
DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
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ACM
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Brewer, Johanna, Romine, Morgan and Taylor, TL. 2020. "Inclusion at Scale: Deploying a Community-Driven Moderation Intervention on Twitch." DIS 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference.
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