Bridging research and practice toward building healthy online spaces. prosocialdesign.org
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The Institute is proud of our members for partnering with @prosocialdesign.bsky.social and Trust & Safety Foundation on this important report!
These recommendations highlight the critical need for strong cross-sector collaboration when working to build healthier digital spaces.
Read more below ⤵️
Treating people with dignity and fairness is the right thing to do. But what if applying that fairness to how rule violations get handled could also reduce harm and foster healthier engagement?
A primer on due process in content moderation ⤵️
www.prosocialdesign.org/blog/due-pro...
Great to see this study finally published. In @prosocialdesign.bsky.social 's review of the evidence on the effectiveness of different approaches to reducing the spread of misinformation, we found Community Notes was second only to "Accuracy Nudges": www.prosocialdesign.org/blog/primer-...
Prosocial Design Network
Research suggests fair moderation can reduce harm and foster healthier engagement
We've added a new intervention to the library rated tentative: regional identity tags.
New research suggests that showing regional identity in comment threads reduced incivility, apparently because it activated a sense of regional responsibility.
www.prosocialdesign.org/library/regi...
In partnership with Roblox, we brought together 40+ academics and Roblox team members around one question: how do you foster connection in social gaming spaces?
That produced 6 funded research projects.
This Thursday, the teams present their initial findings.
📅May 21. 12:00 ET. luma.com/5pzchf47
Integrity Institute
Two of our own have a chapter in a new book! 🎉
@dgruning.bsky.social and @juliakamin.bsky.social contributed "Prosocial Design in Trust and Safety" to Trust, Safety, and the Internet We Share from Trust and Safety Foundation.
You can find the report we'll be discussing here: www.prosocialdesign.org/blog/connect...
📚 Read the Open Access digital edition: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
📚 Get a physical copy: www.routledge.com/Trust-Safety...
🚨Upcoming Event 🚨
Join us to discuss our new report, Connecting Researchers & Practitioners to Catalyze Actionable Research together with members of the Expert Working Group who produced it!
🗓 Thursday, July 9 1pm ET
luma.com/hkqnlr3u?tk=...
A review of the evidence from PDN's Design Library.
Can researchers & tech professionals connect to catalyze actionable research that supports healthier digital spaces?
We've launched a new report alongside colleagues from the Trust and Safety Foundation, @integrity-inst.bsky.social & more.
www.prosocialdesign.org/blog/connect...
How can we foster connection in social gaming spaces?
In Fall 2025, Roblox and Prosocial Design Network brought together more than 40 academics and Roblox team…
Trust, Safety, and the Internet We Share: Multistakeholder Insights is both an informative and provocative overview of online trust and safety that will
Academics and other researchers outside of industry produce hundreds of studies a year to investigate and inform the use of prosocial design in digital spaces.…
