Custodians of the Internet: Tarleton Gillespie at #CSMIT2018
Channel: Citizens and Technology Lab
Date: 2018-05-28

Counter to the narrative that social media sites are open platforms on which moderation acts as a “bandaid” Tarleton Gillespie, communication scholar and Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, makes the case instead that online moderation is “essential, constant and a definitional part of what platforms do”, themes covered in his new book “Custodians of the Internet”.

Tarleton was speaking at the CivilServant Community Research Summit at MIT in January 2018. 

About Tarleton: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/tarleton/
Custodians of the Internet: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300173130/custodians-internet

Read more about the summit: https://civilservant.io/civilservant_summit_report_jan_2018.html
And about CivilServant: https://civilservant.io/