Special Event | October 21 | 9:30-11 a.m. | Online
Julie Shackford-Bradley, Sijia Xiao, and Niloufar Salehi
Sponsored by the Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Group (AFOG).
This fourth and final session of the Series on Justice and Content Governance will be a hands-on workshop focusing on restorative justice.
Online harm such as sexual harassment or non-consensual image sharing is a prevalent issue on social media platforms. These platforms tend to address harm through content moderation: the review and removal of content that violates the platformâs rules and banning repeat perpetrators. Content moderation follows a punitive justice approach, where it responds to harm by centering the offending party and regulating their offending behavior through punishment. This approach may leave survivors out of the decision-making process and fail to adapt to their individual experiences and needs.
Restorative justice teaches us to focus on those who have been harmed, ask what their needs are, and engage with the offending party and community members to address the harm collectively. In the workshop, the discussants will introduce offline and online restorative justice philosophies and practices, and participants will do design activities in small groups to explore how to apply restorative justice to specific online harm scenarios. We will then discuss the potentials and challenges of online restorative justice in the larger group.
510-642-1464
Catherine Cronquist Browning, catherine@ischool.berkeley.edu,
