<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><div class="gmail_default"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail-OutlineElement gmail-Ltr gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;font-family:"Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><p class="gmail-Paragraph gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext"><b><span lang="EN-US" class="gmail-TextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">C</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">all for Presentations</span></span><span class="gmail-EOP gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif"> </span></b></p></div><div class="gmail-OutlineElement gmail-Ltr gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;font-family:"Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><p class="gmail-Paragraph gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext"><span lang="EN-US" class="gmail-TextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Mastodon</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">:</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> Research </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Symposium and Tool </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">E</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">xploration</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> Workshop</span></span><span class="gmail-EOP gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif"> </span></p></div><div class="gmail-OutlineElement gmail-Ltr gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;font-family:"Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><p class="gmail-Paragraph gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext"><span lang="EN-US" class="gmail-TextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Date: </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">22</span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="gmail-TextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:8.5pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-Superscript gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:super">nd</span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="gmail-TextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> and 23</span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="gmail-TextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:8.5pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-Superscript gmail-S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yle="margin:0px;padding:0px"> </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">an apparent</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> peak of 2.5 million </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">MAUs in December 2022</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> before settling back to</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> a</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> reported </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">1.</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">4</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> million </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">as of</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">late </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">January 2023</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">.</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> The rise of Mastodon cannot be separated from the </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">tragi</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">-</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">spectacle of Elon Musk’s Twitter</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">takeover,</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">and</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> this</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> raises </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">new </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">questions about the relationship between social media platforms and their alternatives. </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">How should we understand the significance of Mastodon, both as an alternative to Twitter and in its own righ</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">t? </span></span><span class="gmail-EOP gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="gmail-Paragraph gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext"><span class="gmail-EOP gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif"><br></span></p></div><div class="gmail-OutlineElement gmail-Ltr gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;font-family:"Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><p class="gmail-Paragraph gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext"><span lang="EN-US" class="gmail-TextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">We know Mastodon has long</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">appeal</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">ed</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">to </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">users invested in the infrastructural politics of </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">open-source and federated </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">architectures</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">. But </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">less is known </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">about Mastodon’s forms of sociality</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> a</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">nd how </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">its infrastructural characteristics shape this sociality</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">.</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> Can Mastodon sociality scale without the viral dynamics of algorithmic feeds?</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> Should we </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">even </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">evaluate Mastodon based on its potential </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">for growth</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> on the scale of the commercial platforms</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">?</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Are its </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">new users</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> simply on a Twitter sabbatical? How has the influx of </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">users altered the dynamics of Mastodon?</span></span><span class="gmail-EOP gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="gmail-Paragraph gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext"><span class="gmail-EOP gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif"><br></span></p></div><div class="gmail-OutlineElement gmail-Ltr gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr;font-family:"Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><p class="gmail-Paragraph gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext"><span lang="EN-US" class="gmail-TextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Mastodon users are spared from the ad</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">vertising</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">-derived</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> attention economy, but </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">ads are </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">relatively </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">low</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> down on the scale of undesirable </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">interact</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">ion</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">s</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> on </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">social media</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">.</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> How is Mastodon handling </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">racism, trolling</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">,</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> and content moderation?</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Is there a specificity to </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">the </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">violence and abuse experienced on Mastodon</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> as compared to its commercial counterparts</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">?</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> </span></span><span class="gmail-EOP gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="gmail-Paragraph gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext"><span class="gmail-EOP gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif"><br></span></p></div><div class="gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:"Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web",Arial,Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div class="gmail-OutlineElement gmail-Ltr gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr"><p class="gmail-Paragraph gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext"><span lang="EN-US" class="gmail-TextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Mastodon introduces a novel l</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">evel </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">of </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">social media </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">governance</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">, the </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="gmail-TextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">instance</span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="gmail-TextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">, whose structures of authority can take various forms, from </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-repeat:repeat-x;background-position:0% 100%;border-bottom:1px solid transparent">mini-</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-repeat:repeat-x;background-position:0% 100%;border-bottom:1px solid transparent">chiefdoms</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> to </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">more </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">deliberative collectives. What do we know about how different Mastodon instances handle </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">governance and the exercise of </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">their </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">‘instance-</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">power’?</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Conversely, which </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">tactics have malicious users </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">developed </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">to circumvent</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> moderation or blocking?</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">If platform politics </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">emerges</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> through the unique affordance of a platform</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">, what might we expect from </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">the federated architecture of Mastodon? </span></span><span class="gmail-EOP gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="gmail-Paragraph gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext"><span class="gmail-EOP gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif"><br></span></p></div><div class="gmail-OutlineElement gmail-Ltr gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr"><p class="gmail-Paragraph gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext"><span lang="EN-US" class="gmail-TextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Finally, Mastodon’s architecture presents new challenges and opportunities for digital research. </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">What </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">kinds of research </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">do the existing tools</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> (</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">such as the R package “</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SpellingErrorV2Themed gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-repeat:repeat-x;background-position:0% 100%;border-bottom:1px solid transparent">rtoot</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">”</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">)</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> enable</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> and what other tools</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> and software might we want to develop?</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Could Mastodon be used to explore more </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">conscientious</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">ways </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">of </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">doing </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">API-style research?</span></span><span class="gmail-EOP gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="gmail-Paragraph gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext"><span class="gmail-EOP gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif"><br></span></p></div><div class="gmail-OutlineElement gmail-Ltr gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;overflow:visible;clear:both;direction:ltr"><p class="gmail-Paragraph gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;vertical-align:baseline;font-kerning:none;background-color:transparent;color:windowtext"><span lang="EN-US" class="gmail-TextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">This event </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">seeks</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> to take the pulse of </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">current Mastodon research. </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">It </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">will in</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">volve </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">a one-day symposi</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">um</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> featuring research presentations and </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">a plenary address by alternative social media researcher, Robert Gehl. This will be followed by a one-day</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> tool exploration workshop</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> featuring </span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SpellingErrorV2Themed gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;background-repeat:repeat-x;background-position:0% 100%;border-bottom:1px solid transparent">RToot</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> developers David Schoch and Chung-</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SpellingErrorV2Themed gmai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ce:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Black Mastodon</span></span><span class="gmail-EOP gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-US" class="gmail-TextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Mastodon sociality and</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">/</span><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">or community dynamics</span></span><span class="gmail-EOP gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-US" class="gmail-TextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Platform migration</span></span><span class="gmail-EOP gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-US" class="gmail-TextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Mastodon and Twitter relations</span></span><span class="gmail-EOP gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-US" class="gmail-TextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Mastodon apps</span></span><span class="gmail-EOP gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-US" class="gmail-TextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Instance politics</span></span><span class="gmail-EOP gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif"> </span></li><li><span lang="EN-US" class="gmail-TextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:18.3458px;font-family:Calibri,Calibri_EmbeddedFont,Calibri_MSFontService,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:none"><span class="gmail-NormalTextRun gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Cross instance research</span></span><span class="gmail-EOP gmail-SCXW125747072 gmail-BCX0" style="background-color:transparent;color:windowtext;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:11pt;margin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