Session 16 of "Behind the Scenes" Online Talk Series with Emillie de Keulenaar

Emillie de Keulenaar: „Content moderation from adjudication to consensus-building“

Time and Date: Februar 18, 2025, 3-4 pm (CET)

In the next session of the PGMT-Lab online talk series ‘Behind the Scenes – Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research’, Emillie de Keulenaar from the University of Groningen will be our guest.

Though content moderation has not disappeared under Musk’s and Zuckerberg’s new moderation philosophies, the transformations it has undergone remain unclear and inconsistent. In this talk, Emillie delves deeper into a counter-intuitive development that has gathered less attention in journalistic and scholarly circles: the development of so-called “consensus-building” moderation mechanisms. In discussing this idea, she also points to empirical methods for analysing “consensus-building” moderation techniques as alternatives to suspension, demotion and flagging.

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About the Series

This talk is part of the series Behind the Scenes – Conversations on Empirical Platform Governance Research that invites scholars in this field to share their experiences and views, fostering community exchange about how we can study platform governance in this challenging context. It is hosted by the Lab “Platform Governance, Media, and Technology” (PGMT) at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen, and the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies, University of Groningen.