Content Creation University
Auditing
AUD-401 Common core Year Four Audience & Community

Community Building II

Moderation, community culture at scale, UGC, off-platform homes (Discord, broadcast channels, newsletters).

Lectures
7
Total runtime
6h 47m
Attendance minimum
3h 24m

Lecture Playlist

Ordered as a teaching progression, not by popularity. Attendance is recorded once half of a lecture has been watched.

  1. Designing Online Communities from Theory Foundations: what makes members commit to a community Stanford 2 Peer institution 88 min
  2. Michael Bernstein, "Crowds, Computation, and the Creation of a Globally-Networked Mind" UGC and crowds: how many small contributions become collective value Stanford University School of Engineering 2 Peer institution 59 min
  3. Stanford Seminar - Online communities as model systems for commons governance Self-governance: communities as commons that write their own rules Stanford Online 2 Peer institution 58 min
  4. Custodians of the Internet Moderation at platform scale: why it is hard and why it defines platforms The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society 1 Ivy League 71 min
  5. A deep dive on YouTube's new Communities with Andru and Aaron On-platform community homes: YouTube's fan-to-fan Communities feature Creator Insider 3 Platform official 24 min
  6. Shorenstein Center Workshop: Building an Online Community Off-platform homes: building and mobilizing a community you own (email lists) Harvard University 1 Ivy League 87 min
  7. Practicum · working creator The Secrets to Owning a Big Discord Server Lecture 4's rulebook-at-scale problem and Lecture 1's design claims, worked out on an owned off-platform home: a creator who grew a Discord to 100,000 members walks the automod filters, the staff he picks, the raids he absorbs and the reward ladder he actually runs No Text To Speech P Practitioner 20 min

Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, No Text To Speech — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.

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