Making Community Governance Legible: A Semester with Bonfire

By Sohyeon Hwang Authors: Sohyeon Hwang (Princeton University), Andrés Monroy-Hernández (Princeton University) Most of us have spent the last two decades living inside platforms we have little control over. A handful of companies tune algorithms, moderate content, and set policies. Operating at “unfathomable” scales, this comes at a cost: it constrains diverse communities to a single set of rules, leaves little room for local values or context, and gives people almost no visibility — or voice — ...