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🏃‍♀️ homestretch! start your last day at #CHI2026 at the "Community Governance and Moderation" 9AM session tomorrow in Room 114 🤠 I'll be presenting our new work envisioning how we can make community-run social media more sustainable through a "community of communities": https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3772318.3790855

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sohyeon hwang

@s0hw@hci.social · 2 weeks ago

I also got to speak with the Siegel Family Endowment about this work in a Q&A here, recently published 🤗:
https://www.siegelendowment.org/insights/sohyeon-hwang-on-the-challenge-and-promise-of-coordinating-governance-across-online-communities/

Siegel Family Endowment

Sohyeon Hwang on the Challenge and Promise of Coordinating Governance Across Online Communities - Siegel Family Endowment

Sohyeon Hwang, PhD is in her second year as a Siegel Research Fellow. Sohyeon serves as a postdoctoral associate at the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at Princeton University, where she studies community-based systems of governance in technologies, including decentralized social media and gig work. We sat down with Sohyeon to learn more about her recent work on inter-community governance processes, how she involves communities in her research, and strategies for overcoming some of the frictions that emerge from coordinating across decentralized social media communities.

sohyeon hwang

@s0hw@hci.social · 2 weeks ago

we draw on design workshops to sketch out a vision of trust bubbles, coalition-building, and shared vocabularies. what really excites me is that the ecosystem participants envisioned was quite coherent - we're actually now developing some ideas for tools 🧰🔧 + resources 📝 in partnership with @Bonfire

in this paper in particular, we highlight tensions around autonomy and labor + identify three principles of design (modularity, polycentricity, forkability) that are guiding our ongoing efforts!

sohyeon hwang

@s0hw@hci.social · 2 weeks ago

find me at the last day of #CHI2026 (or reach out for another time) if you want to chat and learn more! we're especially excited to speak to potential community partners or folks interested in using the infra we are working on building out 🤝🔗

ofc, this project has only been possible with the support with several wonderful collaborators: @andresmh and @YuhanLiu ( @hci), @thaty @sophierollins @aaronshaw ( @communitydata at Northwestern) and @richmondywong at Georgia Tech😊