Seattle on the Mediterranean - The New York Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/04/opinion/seattle-on-the-mediterranean.html?_r=0
The current heat is a precursor, an early peek at a scary tomorrow.
Seattle on the Mediterranean - The New York Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/04/opinion/seattle-on-the-mediterranean.html?_r=0
The current heat is a precursor, an early peek at a scary tomorrow.
Reddit Moderators Shut Down Parts of Site Over Employee’s Dismissal
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/04/technology/reddit-moderators-shut-down-parts-of-site-over-executives-dismissal.html
Hundreds of sections of #Reddit, the popular online message board, were unavailable Friday in what appeared to be a protest by many of the site’s moderators after the abrupt dismissal of a high-ranking company employee.
The move affected nearly 300 individual discussion areas — so-called subreddits that focus on individual topics like technology, art and business. Subreddits are generally moderated by self-appointed members of the community, not official Reddit employees. The shutdowns, which began on Thursday evening, appeared to expand rapidly on Friday.
They began shortly after Victoria Taylor, Reddit’s director of talent, was dismissed on Thursday afternoon. On Friday, the volunteers posted a document online that asked for better communication with official staff, as well as improved software tools for community management.
#CM #modération
Reddit Is Proving How #Crowdsourcing Can Act Fast
Reddit has incurred the wrath of moderators and admins across their site by the removal of one of their top admins and employees, Victoria Taylor, who oversaw the /AMA module. The reasons why Taylor is no longer with Reddit are pretty murky, but moderators have closed huge swathes of the site, setting various forums to private in protest at a lack of transparency and what they deem a lack of respect by Reddit. It highlights the conflict at the heart of crowdsourcing: Decentralization gives freedom for expansion, but it also means the crowd may not act in the way you want it to.
▻http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33379571
via la #veille de @nautilus : ▻http://tss.nautil.us/reddit-is-proving-how-crowdsourcing-can-act-fast_5147
qui invite à lire aussi : “An exemplary crowdsourcing about-face : #DARPA challenges, rogue users, and a foiled experiment.”
►http://nautil.us/issue/18/genius/how-crowdsourcing-turned-on-me
Veille à retrouver sur ce sous-domaine : ▻http://tss.nautil.us
Wanna know more about #RedditRevolt and its implications in terms of moderators’ #digital_labor? Here’s an MIT PhD summer research about that (launched some three week before the actual revolt — that’s what I call seeing the bigger picture;)
Recognizing the Work of Reddit’s Moderators
▻http://socialmediacollective.org/2015/06/16/reddit-research
Entre temps donc, Ellen Pao a été évincée et remplacée à la tête de Reddit par l’un des créateurs de la plateforme.
Pour le reste, je continue à recopier @antoniocasilli :
Si vous étiez une entreprise-phare d’Internet en pleine tempête médiatique et avec vos usagers en grève, feriez-vous appel à un spin doctor ? Par exemple, pour faire « évoluer le storytelling » ? Genre, pour faire en sorte que les médias passent, en une semaine, de mots clés comme « licenciement », « travail », « concertation » (ex. Libé 3 juillet : ▻http://ecrans.liberation.fr/ecrans/2015/07/03/le-site-reddit-bloque-par-ses-moderateurs-en-signe-de-protestation) à une autre sémantique, faite de « sexisme », « insultes racistes », « adolescence » (Libé 12 juillet : ▻http://ecrans.liberation.fr/ecrans/2015/07/12/reddit-entre-sexisme-et-crise-d-adolescence_1346770). D’un récit de tensions entre salariés et dirigeants (avec en cadeau la solidarité active des modérateurs/digital laborers non rémunérés) on passe à un marronnier sur « internet repaire de toute incivilité » ? Heureusement, Rue89 est là pour nous rappeler que la crise chez Reddit, c’est bien la nouvelle forme de conflit social à l’ère numérique.
▻http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2015/07/12/licenciement-demission-colere-redditors-260247
« Je préfère séparer que bannir », s’est justifié le nouveau patron de Reddit. « Bannir c’est comme la peine capitale, et nous ne voulons l’utiliser que dans les cas les plus clairs », a-t-il affirmé.
oui.
mais probablement aussi :
Decision to stop short of a full-on purge of site’s most controversial threads demonstrates awakening within Reddit to a long-acknowledged problem: the site might not be able to survive without them
▻http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/16/reddit-decency-reckoning-ellen-pao-trolls