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Abstract

• Large social media platforms are generally designed for scalability—the ambition to increase in size without a fundamental change in form. This means that to address harm among users, they favor automated moderation wherever possible and typically apply a uniform set of rules. This article contrasts scalability with restorative and transformative justice approaches to harm, which are usually context-sensitive, relational, and individualized. We argue that subsidiarity—the principle that local social units should have meaningful autonomy within larger systems—might foster the balance between context and scale that is needed for improving responses to harm.

Creator

• Hasinoff, Amy A.
• Schneider, Nathan

Date Issued

• 2022

Academic Affiliation

• Computer Science

Journal Title

• Social Media + Society Journal

Journal Issue/Number

• 3

Journal Volume

• 8

Last Modified

• 2024-11-18

Resource Type

• Article

Rights Statement

• In Copyright

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221126041

ISSN

• 2056-3051

Language

• English [eng]

License

• Creative Commons BY Attribution 4.0 International

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