Benjamin Mako Hill
@mako.cc
I'm teaching a course on how to build great online communities and am hoping to pair up a few students with people who want to build, improve, grow, or change a new or existing online group. Drop a DM or email if you'd be interested in having one of my students consult (for free)!
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I'm teaching a course on how to build great online communities and am hoping to pair up a few students with people who want to build, improve, grow, or change a new or existing online group. Drop a DM or email if you'd be interested in having one of my students consult (for free)!
Register to join me and @communitydata.science Friday (November 7) for our next free/public science of community dialogue on "The Impacts of Organizational Interventions in Open Source Software Engineering" with talks from Matt Gaughan and Igor Steinmacher: blog.communitydata.science/science-of-c...
Science of Community Dialogue: The Impacts of Organizational Interventions in Open Source Software Engineering
This dialogue will take place on November 7th at 12pm CT and will explore how free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) projects adapt their work processes to recruit new contribut…
blog.communitydata.science
November 5, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Register to join me and @communitydata.science Friday (November 7) for our next free/public science of community dialogue on "The Impacts of Organizational Interventions in Open Source Software Engineering" with talks from Matt Gaughan and Igor Steinmacher: blog.communitydata.science/science-of-c...
Last chance to register for an event my research group (@communitydata.science) is organizing tomorrow on AI chatbots that respect privacy boundaries. Our own Hsuen-Chi (Hazel) Chiu will present along with @JasmineMcNealy. Join us! blog.communitydata.science/community-di...
Community Dialogue – AI Boundaries: Refusal and Privacy
Join the Community Data Science Collective (CDSC) for our 12th Science of Community Dialogue! This Community Dialogue will take place on October 17th, 2025 at 12:00 pm CT. This dialogue explores ho…
blog.communitydata.science
October 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Last chance to register for an event my research group (@communitydata.science) is organizing tomorrow on AI chatbots that respect privacy boundaries. Our own Hsuen-Chi (Hazel) Chiu will present along with @JasmineMcNealy. Join us! blog.communitydata.science/community-di...
Interested in doing graduate research with me and the rest of @communitydata.science? My research group (now with faculty at six campuses!) is organizing a PhD and MS recruiting event and Q&A. Join us! Details and a registration link is here: blog.communitydata.science/prospective-...
Prospective PhD Student Q&A – September 26th
Thinking about applying to graduate school? Wonder what it’s like to pursue a PhD or M.S.? Interested in understanding relationships between technology and society? Curious about how to do research…
blog.communitydata.science
September 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Interested in doing graduate research with me and the rest of @communitydata.science? My research group (now with faculty at six campuses!) is organizing a PhD and MS recruiting event and Q&A. Join us! Details and a registration link is here: blog.communitydata.science/prospective-...
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For the cover of my next book? Thanks @mako.cc , who found this while biking, as in like pedaling-biking!, through a big chunk of Africa (pic taken en route into Nairobi from Ngong)
August 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
For the cover of my next book? Thanks @mako.cc , who found this while biking, as in like pedaling-biking!, through a big chunk of Africa (pic taken en route into Nairobi from Ngong)
UW published this really nice article about my work on governance challenges and lifecycles faced by peer-produced online communities—the work supported by my NSF CAREER grant. Check it out if you want to know what I've been thinking about and working on!
The Challenge of Peer-Produced Websites | UW College of Arts & Sciences
Communication professor Benjamin Mako Hill studies why successful peer-produced websites (like Wikipedia) eventually struggle to maintain their openness to new contributors.
artsci.washington.edu
June 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
UW published this really nice article about my work on governance challenges and lifecycles faced by peer-produced online communities—the work supported by my NSF CAREER grant. Check it out if you want to know what I've been thinking about and working on!
Reposted by Benjamin Mako Hill
If you're in Denver for the International Communication Association's annual meeting, see work by and connect with CDSC people. @yibin.bsky.social, @callofdyuti.bsky.social, @mako.cc, Haomin Lin, and Jeremy Foote are all around! #ICA25 blog.communitydata.science/come-check-o...
Come check out the CDSC at ICA 75!
A number of our CDSC folks will be attending the 75th Annual International Communication Association Conference “Disrupting and Consolidating Communication Research” in Denver, Colorado…
blog.communitydata.science
June 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
If you're in Denver for the International Communication Association's annual meeting, see work by and connect with CDSC people. @yibin.bsky.social, @callofdyuti.bsky.social, @mako.cc, Haomin Lin, and Jeremy Foote are all around! #ICA25 blog.communitydata.science/come-check-o...
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a new short research brief with @mako.cc and @aaronshaw.bsky.social synthesizes some of the work I presented at @communitydata.science Science of Community Dialogues back in April! zenodo.org/records/1560...
Online Community Resilience: Governing Public Information Goods Under Attack
Online communities steward a complex set of public information goods. These goods face a range of urgent threats: strategic information pollution and governance capture; legitimacy attacks by external...
zenodo.org
June 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM
a new short research brief with @mako.cc and @aaronshaw.bsky.social synthesizes some of the work I presented at @communitydata.science Science of Community Dialogues back in April! zenodo.org/records/1560...
Last chance to register for this public event on online governance that my research group (@communitydata.science) is organizing tomorrow as part of our Science of Community Dialogues series.
We're hosting another Community Dialogue discussing the Role of Community Governance with @zarine.net and @paulgowder.bsky.social on April 4th @ 12pm CT!
You can learn more and register here: blog.communitydata.science/community-di...
You can learn more and register here: blog.communitydata.science/community-di...
Community Dialogue on The Role of Community Governance
Join the Community Data Science Collective (CDSC) for our 11th Science of Community Dialogue! This Community Dialogue will take place on April 4th at 12:00 pm CT. This Dialogue focuses on resisting…
blog.communitydata.science
April 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Last chance to register for this public event on online governance that my research group (@communitydata.science) is organizing tomorrow as part of our Science of Community Dialogues series.
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The New Yorker says Wikipedia is a beacon of hope, with quotes from me and @mako.cc www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
Elon Musk Also Has a Problem with Wikipedia
Lately, Musk’s beef has merged with a general conviction on the right that the site is biased against conservatives.
www.newyorker.com
March 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The New Yorker says Wikipedia is a beacon of hope, with quotes from me and @mako.cc www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
My current playlist is this diorama of Lulu the Piggy channeling Tupac Shakur in a toy vending machine in the basement of New World Mall in Flushing Chinatown.
December 21, 2024 at 9:23 PM
My current playlist is this diorama of Lulu the Piggy channeling Tupac Shakur in a toy vending machine in the basement of New World Mall in Flushing Chinatown.
While in Tokyo, nutritional epidemiologist @mikazilla.bsky.social realizes that "if I am what I eat..." The situation in Seoul is similar, albeit less fried and more confident.
December 19, 2024 at 2:59 AM
While in Tokyo, nutritional epidemiologist @mikazilla.bsky.social realizes that "if I am what I eat..." The situation in Seoul is similar, albeit less fried and more confident.
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i guess "governance capture" may be kind of relevant these days... i'll be at CSCW this week presenting our paper with @mako.cc and @katestarbird.bsky.social exploring why some self-governing online communities are more vulnerable to capture than others: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Governance Capture in a Self-Governing Community: A Qualitative Comparison of the Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Serbo-Croatian Wikipedias | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
What types of governance arrangements make some self-governed online groups more vulnerable
to disinformation campaigns? We present a qualitative comparative analysis of the
Croatian and Serbian Wikip...
dl.acm.org
November 9, 2024 at 10:37 PM
i guess "governance capture" may be kind of relevant these days... i'll be at CSCW this week presenting our paper with @mako.cc and @katestarbird.bsky.social exploring why some self-governing online communities are more vulnerable to capture than others: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
My research group @communitydata.science will host a public/free workshop on research into online community governance as part of our Science of Community Dialogue Series: https://wiki.communitydata.science/Dialogues/Complexities_of_Community_Governance (register at the link!).
September 24, 2024 at 8:45 AM
My research group @communitydata.science will host a public/free workshop on research into online community governance as part of our Science of Community Dialogue Series: https://wiki.communitydata.science/Dialogues/Complexities_of_Community_Governance (register at the link!).
I realize that because I have several chairs, the phrase "my chair" is ambiguous. To reduce confusion, I will refer to the head of my academic department as "my office chair" going forward.
September 17, 2024 at 10:08 PM
I realize that because I have several chairs, the phrase "my chair" is ambiguous. To reduce confusion, I will refer to the head of my academic department as "my office chair" going forward.
"If you'd like to be even more confused, click here!" (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope)
August 10, 2024 at 4:00 PM
"If you'd like to be even more confused, click here!" (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope)
Abbott should have a deferred payment plan for its COVID tests and call it BinaxNOW™ PaynaxLATER™.
September 27, 2023 at 3:31 PM
Abbott should have a deferred payment plan for its COVID tests and call it BinaxNOW™ PaynaxLATER™.
Wrapped up an awesome first day at Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy where I'm honored to be part of an awesome class of fellows for 23-24 (w/ @alicetiara.bsky.social as you can see).
Excited to be back on the east coast and to (re)connecting w/ many of you! #sabbatical
Excited to be back on the east coast and to (re)connecting w/ many of you! #sabbatical
September 6, 2023 at 5:51 AM
Wrapped up an awesome first day at Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy where I'm honored to be part of an awesome class of fellows for 23-24 (w/ @alicetiara.bsky.social as you can see).
Excited to be back on the east coast and to (re)connecting w/ many of you! #sabbatical
Excited to be back on the east coast and to (re)connecting w/ many of you! #sabbatical
Turns out out that my house is on here (@els.bsky.social ), already followed by 66 people, and has posted pictures from events I was present for!
September 3, 2023 at 1:54 AM
Turns out out that my house is on here (@els.bsky.social ), already followed by 66 people, and has posted pictures from events I was present for!
Japanese macrobiotic biscuits reminding me to upload my plant and animal photos to iNaturalist.
August 25, 2023 at 11:53 PM
Japanese macrobiotic biscuits reminding me to upload my plant and animal photos to iNaturalist.
Tokyo garbage can asking me the big questions.
July 26, 2023 at 8:02 AM
Tokyo garbage can asking me the big questions.
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An ad for an app to look for new jobs...
#ohnojp
#ohnojp
July 26, 2023 at 7:10 AM
An ad for an app to look for new jobs...
#ohnojp
#ohnojp
I'll be at #ICA23 with a big chunk of the Community Data Science Collective. Check out this blog post that documents all the great stuff that folks from my research collective will be doing and presenting. https://blog.communitydata.science/community-data-science-collective-at-ica-2023/
Community Data Science Collective at ICA 2023
The International Communication Association (ICA)’s 73nd annual conference is coming up soon. This year, the conference takes place in Toronto, Canada, and a subset of our collective is showing up …
blog.communitydata.science
May 25, 2023 at 1:32 AM
I'll be at #ICA23 with a big chunk of the Community Data Science Collective. Check out this blog post that documents all the great stuff that folks from my research collective will be doing and presenting. https://blog.communitydata.science/community-data-science-collective-at-ica-2023/