• "Care, wisdom, and civics: Value sensitive design of large language model support for online moderation" by Lovely-Frances Domingo, Sarah Gilbert, Yang Cao, Hal Daumé III, Michelle L Mazurek, Katie Shilton in ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction.
• "Whose Knowledge is Valued? Epistemic Injustice in CSCW Applications" by Leah Ajmani, Jasmine Foriest, Jordan Taylor, Kyle Pittman, Sarah Gilbert and Michael Ann Devito in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW).
• "Toxicity detection is NOT all you need: Measuring gaps to supporting volunteer content moderators through a user-centric method." by Trista Cao, Lovely Domingo, Sarah Gilbert, Michelle Mazurek, Katie Shilton, and Hal Daumé III in Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
• "CONTENTR: An Experiential Game for Teaching Value Tradeoffs in Social Media Governance" by Anna Lenhart, Sarah Gilbert and Katie Shilton.
• "Towards Intersectional Moderation: An Alternative Model of Moderation Built on Care and Power" by Sarah Gilbert, in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW). Best Paper Award Winner
• "Studying reddit: A systematic overview of disciplines, approaches, methods, and ethics" by Nicolas Proferes, Naiyan Jones, Sarah Gilbert, Casey Fiesler & Michael Zimmer
• "I run the world's largest historical outreach project and it's on a cesspool of a website." Moderating a public scholarship site on Reddit: A case study of r/AskHistorians by Sarah Gilbert in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW)

Select blog posts:

• "Freedoms of Assembly and Association in Digital Technologies" by J. Nathan Matias and Sarah Gilbert
• "AI Governance & Safety Depend on Community & Commercial Content Moderators" by J. Nathan Matias and Sarah Gilbert
• "From Avifauna to Megafauna: Migrations in Online Social Spaces" by Sarah Gilbert

Sometimes I answer questions early participation in online communities for r/AskHistorians:

• On early content moderation
• On women's participation

When I conduct research with online communities I share results with them first when possible.

• Community survey reports:
• r/AskHistorians
• Comming soon: r/AmItheAsshole
• Coming soon: r/racism
• Coming soon: r/science
• From my dissertation:
• Read Part 1, on learning and knowledge exchange
• Read Part 2, on the cultural and technical impacts of Reddit on AskHistorians (and AskHistorians, on Reddit)
• Read Part 3, on the visible and invisible work of AskHistorians moderators (and why they do it)

• Remember the human: A systematic review of ethical considerations in reddit research by Casey Fiesler, Michael Zimmer, Nicholas Profers, Sarah Gilbert and Naiyan Jones in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (GROUP) Honorable mention award winner
• When research is the context: Cross-platform user expectations for social media data reuse by Sarah Gilbert, Katie Shilton, and Jessica Vitak in Big Data & Society
• Excavating awareness and power in data science: A manifesto for trustworthy pervasive data research by Katie Shilton, Emanuel Moss, Sarah A Gilbert, Matthew J Bietz, Casey Fiesler, Jacob Metcalf, Jessica Vitak, Michael Zimmer in Big Data & Society
• Measuring Americans’ comfort with research uses of their social media data by Sarah Gilbert, Jessica Vitak, Katie Shilton in Social Media + Society
• Studying reddit: A systematic overview of disciplines, approaches, methods, and ethics by Nicholas Proferes, Naiyan Jones, Sarah Gilbert, Casey Fiesler, Michael Zimmer in Social Media + Society

Also, check out this article, co-authored with J. Nathan Matias, about how to support ethical independent tech research in Tech Policy Press:

• Enabling Independent Research Without Unleashing Ethics Disasters

• Learning in a Twitter-based community of practice: an exploration of knowledge exchange as a motivation for participation in# hcsmca by Sarah Gilbert in Information, Communication & Society.
• Tweet to learn: Expertise and centrality in conference Twitter networks by Sarah Gilbert and Drew Paulin in Proceedings of the 48th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. This paper also won the ASIS&T Social Informatics Best Student Paper award in 2016.
• Learning in the wild: coding for learning and practice on Reddit, Caroline Haythornthwaite, Priya Kumar, Anatoliy Gruzd, Sarah Gilbert, Marc Esteve del Valle, Drew Paulin
• Learning in the wild: Coding Reddit for learning and practice, Priya Kumar, Anatoliy Gruzd, Caroline Haythornthwaite, Sarah Gilbert, Marc Esteve del Valle, Drew Paulin. *This paper was nominated for a best paper award*
• Social media in educational practice: Faculty present and future use of social media in teaching, Marc Esteve Del Valle, Anatoliy Gruzd, Caroline Haythornthwaite, Drew Paulin, Sarah Gilbert
• Uses and gratifications factors for social media use in teaching: Instructors’ perspectives, Anatoliy Gruzd, Caroline Haythornthwaite, Drew Paulin, Sarah Gilbert, Marc Esteve Del Valle
• Social media and learning, Drew Paulin and Sarah Gilbert