Digital Footprints and Changing Networks During Online Identity Transitions

Haimson, Oliver L.; Brubaker, Jed R.; Dombrowski, Lynn; Hayes, Gillian R.

doi:10.1145/2858036.2858136

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“…Such platforms are challenging to those who need to engage in experimentation and exploration to find their new gender identity [39]. Even after transitioning, digital footprints representing a past gender, name, and appearance may remain on one's profile [41]. While much has been done to address some of these challenges around self-presentation, such as Facebook's custom gender options, there remain some problematic programmatic decisions.…”

Section: Trans Identities and Experiences Onlinementioning

confidence: 99%

Social Media as Social Transition Machinery

Haimson

2018

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

102

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Social media, and people's online self-presentations and social networks, add complexity to people's experiences managing changing identities during life transitions. I use gender transition as a case study to understand how people experience liminality on social media. I qualitatively analyzed data from transition blogs on Tumblr (n=240), a social media blogging site on which people document their gender transitions, and in-depth interviews with transgender bloggers (n=20). I apply ethnographer van Gennep's liminality framework to a social media context and contribute a new understanding of liminality by arguing that reconstructing one's online identity during life transitions is a rite of passage. During life transitions, people present multiple identities simultaneously on different social media sites that together comprise what I call social transition machinery. Social transition machinery describes the ways that, for people facing life transitions, multiple social media sites and networks often remain separate, yet work together to facilitate life transitions. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing~HCI theory, concepts and models • Human-centered computing~Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms • Human-centered computing~Social media • Human-centered computing~Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing

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Section: Trans Identities and Experiences Onlinementioning

confidence: 99%

Social Media as Social Transition Machinery

Haimson

2018

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

102

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“…Motivations for doing so can vary from separating professional and personal contacts [80], to distinguishing between actions as an individual vs. actions on behalf of an organization, to negotiating gender identity transitions [44,45]. Repair work offers another example: A given individual may simultaneously act as, say, both smartphone user and repair technician [56], even though these are generally represented as two distinct subject positions.…”

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Post-userism

Baumer

Brubaker

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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HCI is focused on improving the interactions we have with technology and innovating new types of interactions, as well as expanding the types of people for whom those interactions are designed. Central to these efforts is the simultaneously empowering and contested construct of the "user." This paper examines what the construct of the user highlights, as well as what it conceals. We introduce postuserism, a perspective that simultaneously acknowledges the limits of, and proposes alternatives to, the central construct of the user as proxy for the "human" in HCI. Drawing on developments across the historical trajectory of HCI, we articulate how the user is enacted across four different levels of representation-systems, interface, design process, and the ideology-and identify situations where the user breaks down. Synthesizing prior work, we offer a series of strategies for grappling with such situations. In doing so, we seek to overcome the limitations imposed by the user and develop a language that will aid in evolving the foundations of HCI by asking what, exactly, we place at the center of our scholarship and design.

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“…Research attention is turning towards challenging and deeply personal experiences such as gender transition [5], domestic abuse [3], romantic relationship dissolution [7], bereavement [2], and even genocide [4]. Such research has prompted community focus on how to conduct such challenging research, both methodologically and ethically (e.g.…”

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“…His research focuses on how people represent changing and faceted identities on social media during life transitions. In particular, he studies transgender peoples' experiences with self-presentation and disclosure as they change gender on social network site [5,6]. Through his research, he hopes to impact technological inclusion of marginalised users.…”

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HCI and Sensitive Life Experiences

Herron

Andalibi

Haimson

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

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HCI research has identified a number of life events and life transitions which see individuals in a vulnerable state, such as gender transition, domestic abuse, romantic relationship dissolution, bereavement, and even genocide. Although these life events differ across the human lifespan, considering them as a group of 'sensitive life experiences', and exploring the similarities and differences in how we approach those experiences as researchers could be invaluable in generating a better understanding of them. In this workshop, we aim to identify current opportunities for, and barriers to, the design of social computing systems that support people during sensitive life events and transitions. Participants will take part in activities centred around exploring the similarities and differences between their own and others' research methods and results, drawing on their own experiences in discussions around carrying out research in these sensitive contexts. Author KeywordsEthics; humanistic HCI; life events; sensitive contexts. DESCRIPTIONLife experiences that place individuals in a vulnerable state are an emergent theme in HCI. Research attention is turning towards challenging and deeply personal experiences such as gender transition [5], domestic abuse [3], romantic relationship dissolution [7], bereavement [2], and even genocide [4]. Such research has prompted community focus on how to conduct such challenging research, both methodologically and ethically (e.g. Waycott, CHI 2016). To better understand these experiences in the context of HCI research and design, we wish to explore them as a collective whilst acknowledging the uniqueness of each context of enquiry. What can we learn about our approach to one sensitive context from our approach to another?This one-day workshop will identify current opportunities for, as well as barriers to, the design of social computing systems that support people during sensitive life events and transitions ("experiences"). Participants will take part in activities aimed at exploring similarities and differences with respect to research methods and results. They will also draw on their personal experiences and perspectives to respond to discourse on how to do research in sensitive contexts, building expertise within the research community. Ultimately, the workshop will further the development of the emergent international community of researchers who focus on sensitive life events and transitions, offering a platform for knowledge exchange, methodological maturation and innovation, and further collaboration. OVERVIEW OF ACTIVITIESWe invite submissions including but not limited to the following: A specific case study, project, or critical evaluation of current technology in the context of life experience(s); a cross-cultural study in the context of technology use around a life experience(s); an autoethnography of (a) one's experience of conducting research in the context of a sensitive life experience or (b) one's experience of interactive with technology in the context of a...

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Digital Footprints and Changing Networks During Online Identity Transitions

Cited by 94 publications

References 36 publications

Social Media as Social Transition Machinery

Social Media as Social Transition Machinery

Post-userism

HCI and Sensitive Life Experiences

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