I'm posting my first summaries of other people's research on https://wrecka.ge soon, and I realized should ask what kinds of things people here would find helpful.
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I'm posting my first summaries of other people's research on https://wrecka.ge soon, and I realized should ask what kinds of things people here would find helpful.
I'm covering who did the research and their stated goals, known funding info, overall findings, and why I think the work is relevant/interesting for people working on and interested in better networks for humans. (My non-secret goal is to lure people into reading the research itself.)
What else would you want to know?
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@kissane Possibly unhelpful answer, but I'd be keen for you to go wide, maybe batching a few thematically-linked summaries at a time, even at the cost of (relative) depth.
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There's SO MUCH great work around, and I think only a tiny fraction of it gets seen, but tbh I also worry that posting even good summaries won't be enough to get eyes on the material, so I will also Write A Long Thread or whatever, and then iterate based on how that seems to go.
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@kissane Any ideas on the core group that started these networks? Had they previous relationships snd in what areas? Was it technical intrigue or a social justice issue? What is learnt on how they were formed.
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@tinfoiling For the researchers themselves? Or the networks they study?
(My first summary will be on a research group's findings on global social justice communities' experiences with alt networks like Mastodon.)
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@jcalpickard Totally helpful! I was thinking of alternating between summaries and shallower roundups, since realistically, I can't do good summaries of more than one or two a month.
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@kissane Great question. I had only thought of the networks. For researchers it would be more background.
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@tinfoiling Absolutely—I think this piece is so important in establishing the POV of any research project. And I'm not an academic, so I don't have to be polite about sketchy funding.
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@kissane Beautiful web layout. I still need to up my RSS game. Is it possible to subscribe to your website through the fediverse in the meantime?
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@kissane
If you're going wide, a little bit of metadata would be useful — qualitative or quantitative, networks and years studied, and some slim ontology of intents (increase diversity, reduce mental harm, encourage virality), focuses (moderation, recommendations) and mode (technical intervention, etc)
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@dymaxion Yesss. Ty. I'm trying to build as much structure in as possible now so I don't have to go back and reconstruct it later when this is unwieldy and messy.
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@malte Thank you! Ghost federation is still in the works, so it's just email (which is free!) or RSS for now, but also I post links to everything on this account, so that's another informal option.
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@kissane If you know the field of research well, a bit of background on the methodology can be important to better understand the implications of the study.
In my experience, understanding what was done and what came of it, is usually comprehensive. The details on how it was achieved or where (questionable) shortcuts were employed are often quite arcane to someone, who is not from that field of research.
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@goblin Mmm, good point.
