Develop Consequence Scanning workshop

[malteserteresa]

Objective Develop a Consequence Scanning workshop for Opt Out

Description Design a workshop that challenges Opt Out and it's attempt at content moderation.

Skills

Tools Consequence-Scanning-Agile-Event-Manual-TechTransformed-Doteveryone-2.pdf See also additional resources here

Time Estimation

Tasks

• [x] Read through above pdf
• [ ] Think of prompts
• [ ] Practice

[shepni]

We held a first version of the consequence scanning workshop at 36C3 (annual chaos communication congress organised by the CCC). Participants were a mixed group of people interested in hacking online harassment and misogyny. See brief workshop description here.

The format was very open and geared at an audience who is not part of the same organisation nor works on one common project. As a result, the consequence scanning did not focus on a particular tool or feature, but on a set of tools we brainstormed with the group first. Examples the group came up with include filtering/blocking in general, content moderation, troll busters, opt-out tools or platform-integral blocking/reporting options.

Learnings:

• This format works well for community outreach workshops. We will further refine it (short slide deck, more detailed introduction of the method etc.) and keep it "on file" for future conferences and other occasions.
• In order to assess the full potential of consequence scanning for Opt Out Tools, we will further test the method (following the original format more closely) with a smaller group of participants working on aspects of Opt Out Tools specifically.