Organizing against content moderation on Instagram
Monica Nadegger and Milena Leybold (both U of Innsbruck) have shared with us data of a single case study conducted in the context of the content moderation practices on Instagram and their particular effects on marginalized communities. The data encompasses Instagram posts, blogposts, and websites from a petition and a resistance movement in the time period from June-November 2019.
Together, we have discussed the following:
“If a communicative act in form of a speech act (Austin, 1962) is connected to another speech act, a community emerges, grows, learns, builds a shared identity, defines boundaries, and gets visible for outsiders who might attribute a collective actorhood (Dobusch & Schoeneborn, 2015; Luhmann, 2003). Concludingly, content moderation as a communicative practice influencing the connectivity of speech acts co-shapes the degree of organizationality of a community. Against this backdrop, we ask the following research question: How does content moderation as a communicative practice shape the organizationality of a community?”
Journey of this dataset & idea
Paper published by Milena Leybold & Monica Nadegger in Organization: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13505084221145635