Selected writing and publications

Academic:

Paech, V. & Martin, F. (2021) ‘On community: respect, connect, reflect, and only then direct’, The Public Square Project: Reimagining Our Digital Future, Lewis, P. & Guiao, J. eds. Melbourne University Press.

Trott V, Beckett J, Paech V. Operationalising ‘toxicity’ in the manosphere: Automation, platform governance and community health. Convergence. June 2022. doi:10.1177/13548565221111075

Wagner, D. Happe, R., Laub, T., Paech, V., Spinks, D., & Wagenaar, K. (2021). Building Communities of Community Builders – An International Perspective. In T. Köhler & E. Schoop (Eds.), Gemeinschaften in Neuen Medien: Digitale Partizipation in hybriden Realitäten und Gemeinschaften: 24. Workshop GeNeMe'21, Dresden, Germany, October 6-8, 2021 (pp. 388-393). TUDpress. https://doi.org/10.25368/2022.66

Tuning Out Hate Speech On Reddit: Automating Moderation and Detecting Toxicity in the Manosphere. Trott, V., Beckett, J., & Paech, V. (2020). AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2020i0.11352

Conference paper: Bot visibility and authenticity: Building mediated conversations for inclusion, International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference, Finland (2020), Hutchinson, J.,  Münch, F. & Paech, V.

Symposium: Automated Cultures, Monash University Culture Media Economy Research Hub, and Liquid Architecture (2019)

Symposium: Community as a data infrastructure, AOIR 2019, Data Futures, University of NSW

Symposium: Living with AI - Humanity in the age of smart machines, Fudan University, China (2019). ‘Conceptualising AI development for online communities using care ethics’, Martin, F. and Paech, V.

Symposium: Digital Data and Automation in Everyday Life Symposium, Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT (2017)

‘The inevitable exile: a missing link in online community discourse’, Digital dialogues and community 2.0: After avatars, trolls and puppets, T. Brabazon (ed), (Oxford: Chandos, 2012)

Publish or perish: digital presence and mobility as worthFast Capitalism 8.2

A method for the times: a meditation on virtual ethnography faults and fortitudesNebula, 6.4

Interviews:

PODCAST APPEARANCES

Social Lights: Creating Intentional Communities with Venessa Paech

Masters of Community (CMX): The secrets of well-governed communities

Cohere: The role of AI in online communities and networks

Community Signal: How community management can impact all areas of management

Cluetrain Staion: Past, present and future of online communities

Articles:

Revenge of the moderators: Facebook’s online workers are sick of being treated like bots (The Conversation)

Automation, AI & Community Management: the soul in our new machines (Marketing Magazine)

Facebook’s moderation mess - is marketing complicit? (Marketing Magazine)

Communities in the year 2030 (Uncommunity AMA)

How to shut down an online community gracefully (Quiip blog)

How to create content for online communities (Outbrain)

5 top tips for community governance (Knowledge Bird

Tips for community managing virtual events (Quiip blog)

Social media is dead. Long live community. (B & T)

Should you use automation in your community? (Quiip blog)

How community management can create thriving company culture (JobAdvisor)

5 tips for building community around your startup (Start Up Smart)

It’s just social media management, right? (Mumbrella)

Social media and community managers: The people battling anti-halal trolls and online abuse (news.com.au)

Social media & marketing:

The Voller case emphasises the power imbalance between publishers and platforms, but publishers aren’t trying hard enough (Mumbrella)

Surefire tips to create a winning customer community (B & T)

How to fly your business through a social media storm (HuffPo)

Brand managers should cut trolls off at the knees (AdNews)

How realestate.com.au dominates: Interview with Senior Manager for Content and Community Strategy, Venessa Paech (Telstra Smarter Business Blog)

Venessa presenting at the RMIT Symposium on Automation and Everyday Life, 2018

Venessa presenting at the RMIT Symposium on Automation and Everyday Life, 2018