Faculty:
Amy Bruckman; Eric Gilbert
Students:
Shagun Jhaver
In this project, we performed a large-scale study of moderation responses to thousands of submissions removed on Reddit. We explored the effectiveness of providing a message explaining the post removals to the users for encouraging and discouraging specific behaviors in the future, specifically posting frequency and post removals.
Lab:
Faculty:
Amy Bruckman
The concept that people learn best when they are making something personally meaningful - also known as constructionism - is the lab's guiding philosophy. Computer networks have the potential to facilitate community-supported constructionist learning. The Electronic Learning Communities Lab examines ways communities of learners can motivate and support one another's learning experiences.
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