The Community Data Science Collective organizes a series of events called The Science of Community Dialogues that bring together online community leaders, organizers, and experts. The goal of the…

Use this form to register for the next CDSC Community Dialogue. It will take place on September 18th, 2026 from 3pm to 5pm ET. The presenters are Dyuti Jha (Fort Hays State University) and Joe…

Open source software (OSS) development communities have long provided digital infrastructure used all over the world, and have been a mainstay of CSCW research on online communities and peer…

Visualization of the messy process that turns into the polished paper. Image generated by claude.ai. This winter quarter, a small group of CDSC students at the University of Washington participated…

Benjamin Mako Hill has spent years studying the distinctive social dynamics and governance structures of collaborative websites, from open source software (GNU/Linux), wikis (Wikipedia), collaborative...

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Note: I have not published blog posts about my academic papers over the past few years. To ensure that my blog contains a more comprehensive record of my published papers and to surface these for f…

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…

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…

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…

Communication professor Benjamin Mako Hill studies why successful peer-produced websites (like Wikipedia) eventually struggle to maintain their openness to new contributors.

A number of our CDSC folks will be attending the 75th Annual International Communication Association Conference “Disrupting and Consolidating Communication Research” in Denver, Colorado…

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...

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