MuC 2026 Workshop CfP "Human-Centered Content Moderation: Expertise, Context, and Evaluation"

Dear colleagues,

I am more than happy to invite you to participate in our workshop "Human-Centered Content Moderation: Expertise, Context, and Evaluation" at MuC 2026!

In a shifting content moderation landscape, where platforms are simultaneously scaling back their moderation efforts, relaxing policies, and restricting access to platform data, now is a critical moment to facilitate a workshop on content moderation with a human-centered perspective. We invite you to join our full-day workshop that aims to foster networking within an interdisciplinary group of HCI researchers working broadly on content moderation and to respond to the current developments in content moderation as a community. The central topics of this workshop are (1) Evolution of language & context within harmful speech, (2) Datasets & benchmarks for AI and (3) Human expertise & labor.

📍 University of Duisburg-Essen
📅 August 30, 2026
🕘 09:00–17:00

The workshop is co-organized by Prof. Dr. Hendrik Heuer (Center for Advanced Internet Studies Bochum), David Hartmann (Weizenbaum Institute & TU Berlin), Yixin Zou (MPI Bochum) and Anna Ricarda Luther (Institute for Information Management GmbH & University of Bremen), and will bring together researchers working broadly on content moderation from human-centered and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Call for Participation
We invite submissions in one of the following formats:


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Position papers (up to 2 pages, excluding references)
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Reflection essays (up to 1,000 words)


Submissions should engage with one or more of the workshop themes above.

Submission deadline: June 24, 2026

More information, including submission details, can be found here:

https://workshop26.content-moderation.org/

We warmly encourage researchers from HCI, CSCW, communication studies, AI ethics, platform governance, computational social science, and related disciplines to join us.

Please help us spread the word and we look forward to seeing you at #MuC2026!


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