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DOMINIQUE CARLON

Sedimented Polarisation: Discourse, Materiality, and Moderation Co-Shaping the Political Reddit

Ehsan Dehghan, Dominique Carlon, Kateryna Kasianenko, Ashwin Nagappa, and Vish Padinjaredath Suresh (2025).

https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/fywg4_v1

Through a framework of discourse theory and new materialism, this paper analyses information sharing, cross-posting, and discursive formations across eleven political subreddits over sixteen years. The paper conceptualises Reddit's political communication as 'sedimented polarisation' shaped by an entanglement of platform design, community moderation practices, user agency, discourses and broader socio-political contexts.

Conference Presentation: International Conference on Social Media & Society (London, July 16-18, 2024)

Dominique Carlon (2024). Reddit’s bot inhabitants and their conflicts: From proper bot etiquette to ‘bot battles’ and beyond International Conference on Social Media & Society, July 16-18 2024, London, United Kingdom.
(Forthcoming paper under review)
An exploration of inter-bot relations on Reddit and the paradoxical practice of deploying bots to govern bots.

Workshop and paper: Global Transformatons & Governance Challenges Leiden University, the Netherlands

Louisa Bartolo & Dominique Carlon (2024). Beyond Freedom of Expression: The limits of human rights frameworks for moderating AI-generated speech [Paper and presentation]. The Promise and Perils of Human Rights For Governing Digital Platforms Workshop Jan 18-19 2024. Leiden, The Netherlands (Hybrid)

Conference Presentation and Paper: International Communication Association (ICA) Gold Coast, Australia (June 2024)

Ehsan Dehghan, Kateryna Kasianenko, Dominique Carlon, & Ashwin Nagappa (2024). A Culture War without a Battlefront: Sedimented Polarisation across Political Subreddits. International Communications Association (Intergroup Communications Interest Group), June 2024, Gold Coast, Australia.

In this paper we analysed 16 years of political communication data across 11 subreddit communities
Awarded Top Paper Intergroup Communication Interest Group

Workshop and paper: Global Transformatons & Governance Challenges Leiden University, the Netherlands

Louisa Bartolo & Dominique Carlon (2024). Beyond Freedom of Expression: The limits of human rights frameworks for moderating AI-generated speech [Paper and presentation]. The Promise and Perils of Human Rights For Governing Digital Platforms Workshop Jan 18-19 2024. Leiden, The Netherlands (Hybrid)

Workshop and Paper: Leiden University Global Transformations & Governance Challenges. The Hague, the Netherlands (Jan 2024)

Louisa Bartolo & Dominique Carlon (2024). Beyond Freedom of Expression: The limits of human rights frameworks for moderating AI-generated speech [Paper and presentation]. The Promise and Perils of Human Rights For Governing Digital Platforms Workshop Jan 18-19 2024. Leiden, The Netherlands (Hybrid)

Forthcoming paper under review.

Workshop and paper: Global Transformatons & Governance Challenges Leiden University, the Netherlands

Louisa Bartolo & Dominique Carlon (2024). Beyond Freedom of Expression: The limits of human rights frameworks for moderating AI-generated speech [Paper and presentation]. The Promise and Perils of Human Rights For Governing Digital Platforms Workshop Jan 18-19 2024. Leiden, The Netherlands (Hybrid)

Report: AI and automation in news and media: Key technologies and emerging challenges

Nguyen, D., Meese, J., Burgess, J, Thomas, J., Bartolo, L.,Carah, N., Carlon, D., Chan, J., Kininmonth, S., Lawrence, A., Lobato, R., Matamoros-Fernández, A., Montana-Nino, S.X., Nelson, L., Qian, J., Snoswell, A., Spina, D., Srinivas, A., Suzor, N., Tamta, A., Wikstrom, P., Williams, J. (2023). AI and automation in news and media: Key technologies and emerging challenges. Melbourne: ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, RMIT University. https://www.admscentre.org.au/news-and-media-report/.

Workshop and paper: Global Transformatons & Governance Challenges Leiden University, the Netherlands

Louisa Bartolo & Dominique Carlon (2024). Beyond Freedom of Expression: The limits of human rights frameworks for moderating AI-generated speech [Paper and presentation]. The Promise and Perils of Human Rights For Governing Digital Platforms Workshop Jan 18-19 2024. Leiden, The Netherlands (Hybrid)

Symposium: ADM+S Artificial Companions: Fantasies, Imaginaries, and Play Symposium (Co-organised and hosted with Megan Catherine Rose) Sept 13, 2023

Dominique Carlon and Megan Catherine Rose (2023) Artificial Companions: Fantasies, Imaginaries, and Play Symposium (hosts). Sept 13, 2023
This half-day online symposium featured a keynote and panel presentations from seven artists and academics from Japan, Australia, and Europe.
Robots, bots and artificial intelligence form an active part of our collective and personal self, often representing a form of automated play and companionship. In this symposium we explore the role of design, sociality, culture and belonging in the creation of AI companions. We move beyond the lens of language and harms to consider the relational aspects of AI and how meaning-making and connections are formed within communities. AI companions can be a reflection of the past, the present or a form of future fantasy, and together we invite you to consider their diverse potential in our more than human landscape.

Workshop and paper: Global Transformatons & Governance Challenges Leiden University, the Netherlands

Louisa Bartolo & Dominique Carlon (2024). Beyond Freedom of Expression: The limits of human rights frameworks for moderating AI-generated speech [Paper and presentation]. The Promise and Perils of Human Rights For Governing Digital Platforms Workshop Jan 18-19 2024. Leiden, The Netherlands (Hybrid)

Panel: Play: the Human, Digital and the Automated, ADM+S Artificial Companions: Fantasies, Imaginaries, and Play Symposium (online) Sept 13, 2023

Dominique Carlon (QUT), Clara Julia Reich (Oslo Metropolitain University) , and Dejan Tatić (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Play: the Human, Digital and the Automated, ADM+S Artificial Companions: Fantasies, Imaginaries, and Play Symposium

Bots, like all technologies, did not simply emerge, but have been formed, shaped, and evolved around our cultural imaginaries. This process has in turn been shaped by play, which has influenced how we create bots, how we interact with them, and also how we test and challenge the boundaries and frontiers of what bots can do.
In Play: The Human, Digital and the Automated, we bring together three disciplinary perspectives centred around the key role of play in our social environments, exploring the positioning of play in establishing standards and norms, forming communities and belonging, and in shaping our interactions and behaviour with the machine. By embracing play as a fundamental aspect of adulthood, we highlight how play can foster innovation and enrich our online ecosystems while also challenging the foundations of society.

Workshop and paper: Global Transformatons & Governance Challenges Leiden University, the Netherlands

Louisa Bartolo & Dominique Carlon (2024). Beyond Freedom of Expression: The limits of human rights frameworks for moderating AI-generated speech [Paper and presentation]. The Promise and Perils of Human Rights For Governing Digital Platforms Workshop Jan 18-19 2024. Leiden, The Netherlands (Hybrid)

Conference Paper and Presentation: Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Philadelphia USA (Oct 2023)

Daniel Whelan-Shamy and Dominique Carlon (2023). THE IMPERIAL HAIKU COMMISSION APPROVES THIS MESSAGE’: AN EXAMINATION OF AUTOMATED PLAY AND CULTURE AS (RE)DESIGNED BY BOTS.  AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2023i0.13516

Symposium: ADM+S Artificial Companions: Fantasies, Imaginaries, and Play Symposium (Co-organised and hosted with Megan Catherine Rose) Sept 13, 2023

Carlon, D, & Rose, Megan Catherine (2023) Artificial Companions: Fantasies, Imaginaries, and Play Symposium (hosts). Sept 13, 2023
This half-day online symposium featured a keynote and panel presentations from seven artists and academics from Japan, Australia, and Europe.
Robots, bots and artificial intelligence form an active part of our collective and personal self, often representing a form of automated play and companionship. In this symposium we explore the role of design, sociality, culture and belonging in the creation of AI companions. We move beyond the lens of language and harms to consider the relational aspects of AI and how meaning-making and connections are formed within communities. AI companions can be a reflection of the past, the present or a form of future fantasy, and together we invite you to consider their diverse potential in our more than human landscape.

Conference Presentation: Australia New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) Wellington, Aotearoa, (Nov 2023)

Jean Burgess & Dominique Carlon (2023). Automated nudges as transparent platform governance: A comparative analysis of TikTok and Instagram [Conference Paper]. Australia New Zealand Communication Association, Nov 21-24 2023. Wellington, Aotearoa (New Zealand)

Workshop and paper: Global Transformatons & Governance ChallengesLeiden University, the Netherlands

Louisa Bartolo & Dominique Carlon (2024). Beyond Freedom of Expression: The limits of human rights frameworks for moderating AI-generated speech [Paper and presentation]. The Promise and Perils of Human Rights For Governing Digital Platforms Workshop Jan 18-19 2024. Leiden, The Netherlands (Hybrid)

Conference Presentation: Australia New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) Wellington, Aotearoa, (Nov 2023)

Dominique Carlon (2023). Blackouts, John Oliver, and collective trolling: How Reddit communities pushed back against API policies [Conference Paper]. Australia New Zealand Communication Association, Nov 21-24 2023.Wellington, Aotearoa (New Zealand)

Conference Presentation and Paper: Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR), Dublin, Ireland (2022)

Carlon, D. M. (2023). DADBOT AND WHAT ‘HE’ REVEALS ABOUT REDDIT’S EVERYDAY PLATFORM CULTURE. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2022. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2022i0.12986

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