Archive 2019-2025
Social Media Governance Initiative
The Justice Collaboratory’s Social Media Governance Initiative aims to create an online environment that is good for society.
We envision an online environment in which communities can freely exchange information and ideas and engage in civil discourse in a manner that benefits society. To that end, we engage audiences including technology companies, policymakers and communities to conduct research and develop recommendations to ensure that our digital technologies foster healthy online interaction. We currently partner with practitioners from various social media platforms. We also recognize that many important online communities exist outside the bounds of social media platforms and are committed to supporting healthier online communities wherever they may exist.
Our Approach
Our approach is distinctive because of our engagement with the industry practitioners. We collaborate with several online platforms that are central to our initiative and exchange of scientific ideas across the boundaries of the academy and the corporation.
We believe it is critical to work as independent scholars but to also engage with the companies that benefit from applying scientific research.
Some issues we address with our technology partners include:
Building infrastructure and incentives on platforms to promote civility and pro-social online behaviors
Building online neighborhood community vitality
Understanding how to allow individuals to more actively participate in community governance online
The impact of organizational structure and culture on tech corporations’ governance
Leveraging Procedural Justice theory to shift away from criminal justice and punitive models of platform governance
Published Papers
Special Volumes
Projects and Reports
Convenings
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Op Eds
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Podcasts and Presentations
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Advisory Boards
Nextdoor
Tracey Meares
Tracey Meares, Twitter’s Procedural Justice Advisory Board, 2021
“What procedural justice taught us about fairness and rule enforcement”
Collaborators and Funders
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