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DTSTART:19960101T000000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:GMT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 DTSTART:19961027T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260504T045918Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230622 DURATION:P2D SUMMARY:Mastodon Research Event UID:20230622-8a1785d88747430f0187507b5d3d1a1d@warwick.ac.uk CREATED:20230620T165340Z DESCRIPTION:Although established in 2016\, Mastodon grew rapidly in the s econd half of 2022. From an estimated 500\,000 monthly active users (MAU s) it reached an apparent peak of 2.5 million MAUs in December 2022 befo re settling back to a reported 1.4 million as of late January 2023. The rise of Mastodon cannot be separated from the tragi-spectacle of Elon Mu sk’s Twitter takeover\, and this raises new questions about the relation ship between social media platforms and their alternatives. How should w e understand the significance of Mastodon\, both as an alternative to Tw itter and in its own right? We know Mastodon has long appealed to users invested in the infrastructural politics of open-source and federated ar chitectures. But less is known about Mastodon’s forms of sociality and h ow its infrastructural characteristics shape this sociality. Can Mastodo n sociality scale without the viral dynamics of algorithmic feeds? Shoul d we even evaluate Mastodon based on its potential for growth on the sca le of the commercial platforms? Are its new users simply on a Twitter sa bbatical? How has the influx of users altered the dynamics of Mastodon? Mastodon users are spared from the advertising-derived attention economy \, but ads are relatively low down on the scale of undesirable interacti ons on social media. How is Mastodon handling racism\, trolling\, and co ntent moderation? Is there a specificity to the violence and abuse exper ienced on Mastodon as compared to its commercial counterparts? Mastodon introduces a novel level of social media governance\, the instance\, who se structures of authority can take various forms\, from mini-chiefdoms to more deliberative collectives. What do we know about how different Ma stodon instances handle governance and the exercise of their ā€˜instance-p ower’? Conversely\, which tactics have malicious users developed to circ umvent moderation or blocking? If platform politics emerges through the unique affordance of a platform\, what might we expect from the federate d architecture of Mastodon? Finally\, Mastodon’s architecture presents n ew challenges and opportunities for digital research. What kinds of rese arch do the existing tools (such as the R package ā€œrtootā€) enable and wh at other tools and software might we want to develop? Could Mastodon be used to explore more conscientious ways of doing API-style research? Thi s event seeks to take the pulse of current Mastodon research. It will in volve a one-day symposium featuring research presentations and a plenary address by alternative social media researcher\, Robert Gehl. This will be followed by a one-day tool exploration workshop exploring the RToot package and other research tools. The symposium will be a hybrid event b ased at the University of ĢĒŠÄTV. The tool exploration will be in-perso n only. LOCATION:Hybrid URL:/fac/cross_fac/cim/events/mastodon-research-even t/ ATTACH:/fac/cross_fac/cim/events/mastodon-research-e vent/ CATEGORIES:Multidisciplinary Event LAST-MODIFIED:20230620T165340Z ORGANIZER;CN=Carlos Camara: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR