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 worth, Fast Capitalism 8.2
A method for the times: a meditation on virtual ethnography faults and fortitudes, Nebula, 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:
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)