The Critical Code Studies Working Group is a community for developing and discussing the field of exploring culture through computer source code.

Policies for Guests

The Critical Code Studies Working Group welcomes guests from a diverse community. In order to foster a safe and productive environment for discussion, we offer the following guidelines:

• Be respectful.
• Be welcoming
• Cite sources when possible.

This is a community space, like a community garden. Our goal is to grow ideas together. Please, treat it with care.

Some guidelines:

• Keep your posts relevant to the forum category.
• Please be respectful of others and don’t sweat the small stuff.
• Please do not post any personal information or photos that you wouldn’t want to be seen by the public.
• Do not post hateful or illegal content. Do not post copyrighted material without proper attribution.
• SPAM will not be tolerated.
• Use private messages to chat with moderators or other members in private.

Keep in mind that the CCSWG is an international community, with participants joining from a wide variety of backgrounds, cultural contexts, and language communities.

Publication Agreement:

The forum is a public space. Anyone with access to the Internet can read what is posted. To further spread this content we also intend to periodically republish excerpts from main (featured) threads. By posting in those main threads, you give us permission to republish content on that thread in collections of the CCSWG main thread discussions.

Class Guidelines:

We welcome faculty who wish to bring their undergraduate students to the working group. However, as the conversation threads are meant to be publication-worthy, we would ask that you limit undergraduates to one post on each of the weekly threads. We are happy to set up separate threads for classes, but we do not want the main weekly discussions to become classroom posting boards. That said, we are so happy to have you here.