Category: Conferences and Presentations

A good chunk of the collective is heading to San Diego this week for the 2017 international communication association conference.

Here is a list of our ICA presentations, with links to the conference program which includes abstracts and other details:

• Fri, May 26, 11:00 to 12:15, Hilton San Diego Bayfront, 4, Sapphire 410A: Learning to Code in Localized Programming Languages by Sayamindu Dasgupta and Mako Hill
• Sat, May 27, 9:30 to 10:45, Hilton San Diego Bayfront, 4, Sapphire 411 AB: The Hidden Costs of Requiring Accounts Online: Quasiexperimental Evidence From Peer Production by Mako Hill and Aaron Shaw
• Mon, May 29, 8:00 to 9:15, Hilton San Diego Bayfront, 2, Indigo Ballroom A: Who Contributes to Wikipedia? The Role of Internet Skills in Online Participation Inequalities by Aaron Shaw and Eszter Hargittai
• Mon, May 29, 15:30 to 16:45, Hilton San Diego Bayfront, 4, Sapphire 410A: Density Dependence Without Resource Partitioning: A Population Ecology of Change.org by Nate TeBlunthuis, Aaron Shaw and Mako Hill

In addition to papers, Aaron Shaw will also be chairing of the Critical Digital Labor and Algorithmic Studies session. Mon, May 29, 14:00 to 15:15, Hilton San Diego Bayfront, 2, Indigo 202A

We look forward to sharing research and socializing with you at ICA!

The Community Data Science Collective had an excellent week showing off our stuff at CHI 2017 in Denver last week. The collective presented three papers. If you didn’t make it Denver, or if just missed our presentations, blog post summaries of the papers — plus the papers themselves — are all online:

• Starting Online Communities: Motivations and Goals of Wiki Founders by Jeremy Foote, Darren Gergle, and Aaron Shaw (Full paper)
• Scratch Community Blocks: Supporting Children As Data Scientists by Sayamindu Dasgupta and Benjamin Mako Hill (Full paper)
• Youth Perspectives on Critical Data Literacies by Samantha Hautea, Sayamindu Dasgupta, and Benjamin Mako Hill (Full Paper)

Additionally, Sayamindu Dasgupta’s “Scratch Community Blocks” paper — adapted from his dissertation work at MIT — received a best paper honorable mention award.

All three papers were published as open access so enjoy downloading and sharing the papers!