by Brianna Dym (Medium): In interviews with 31 LGBTQ adults in fandom, we asked them to tell us their coming out story and how they first got involved in fandom.

by Aaron Jiang (Medium): Our findings reveal critical challenges brought by voice in online communities, tensions between laws and the real need to moderate communities, and design recommendations that can make voice-based communities better.

by Sidney Fussell (The Atlantic): Fiesler proposed a system for scrutinizing data-set access that’s similar to copyright use. Fair-use clauses are subjective, she notes, but have standards based on how the requester plans to use the material.

by Jane C. Hu (Slate): Some may disagree that it’s researchers’ responsibility to work around social media users’ ignorance, but Fiesler and others are calling for their colleagues to be more mindful about any work that uses publicly available data.

by Casey Fiesler (Slate): The fan fiction site—built, run, and written primarily by and for women—deserves your respect.

by Casey Fiesler (How We Get To Next): Anything “public” on social media may be fair game, but researchers should be more ethical about using that data.

by Casey Fiesler and Brianna Dym (Slate): If Tumblr doesn’t learn from history, it will be headed for the same fate as LiveJournal.

by Casey Fiesler (How We Get To Next): If you work in tech and you’re not thinking about ethics, you’re bad at your job.

by Casey Fiesler (Medium): Over the course of about a year, our team conducted a qualitative analysis of over 3,000 subreddit rules.

by Casey Fiesler (How We Get To Next): Even if we can’t predict the future, we can use science fiction to think through different possibilities.

by Aaron Jiang (Medium): But do these moving pictures always get across the emotion the way you intended? The answer is no — people misinterpret animated GIFs.

by Heather Schwedel (Slate): A fascinating survey details the migration patterns of pop-culture obsessives.

by Casey Fiesler (Medium): In the paper, we focus on how attitudes towards these data sharing controversies reflect visions of responsibility towards privacy (platform or user?), strategies for privacy protection, and how those two things interact.

by Charlie Brennan (The Denver Post): A new study out of the University of Colorado has found that the majority of Twitter users don’t know that researchers freely collect and analyze their tweets.

by Jacob Metcalf and Casey Fiesler (Slate): Give researchers more access to data, not less.