Benjamin Woo
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Benjamin Woo
@geekworlds.bsky.social
Assoc. Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Carleton University. Studying comic cons and festivals as interfaces between media industries and fan communities. Reading comics, playing TTRPGs, cooking Chinese food. #CatDad
Reposted by Benjamin Woo
If you are a researcher who happens to know other researchers who study Reddit/use Reddit data, I beg of you to please send them this paper.

dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Remember the Human: A Systematic Review of Ethical Considerations in Reddit Research | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Reddit is one of the world's most prominent social media platforms, and also a valuable source of data for internet researchers. However, working with this kind of data also presents novel ethical com...
dl.acm.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
And all the AI ads / spon con just makes me want to hurl.
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It definitely felt like some people decamped there with their serious work personas and tried to replicate writing thoughtful commentary and sharing research. The general feed is pretty dire over there, though.
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I don’t think of it that way but had never seen the video before, and it’s … unwholesome.
October 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Reading this from my beautiful Maker House–constructed desk and wishing them all the best!
October 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I’m sure every artist I know has stories about being pitched randos’ “ideas,” but an idea without expression is nothing!
October 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM