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 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 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.