Safe Spaces and Safe Places

Scheuerman, Morgan Klaus; Branham, Stacy M.; Hamidi, Foad

doi:10.1145/3274424

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“…The Internet has been revolutionary for transgender individuals (those whose gender is diferent than their sex assigned at birth, including non-binary people; shortened to "trans" hereafter), often providing a safe space and a "source of personal and social liberation" [76,95]. The Internet broadly, and social media specifcally, has enabled trans people to gain visibility [31,46], fnd resources [ 13,15,82], and participate in activism [80,95].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Yet while the Internet has had substantial positive benefts for trans people, online spaces are not designed for trans people or with trans people in mind [1], and can sometimes be harmful for trans people [76]. Trans social media users often use existing popular social media sites (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) to post content related to their transitions, but these sites sometimes lack in their afordances and support for trans users [35,51,76]. Whether harm is in the form of Facebook's real name policy requiring a trans person to use a name they no longer use [39] or Tinder removing trans women from the site [44], online social technologies often signal unwelcomeness and outright hostility to trans people.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Trans Time

Haimson

Buss

Weinger

et al. 2020

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Trans related content. However, because most social media platforms are not built with trans people in mind and because online networks include people who may not accept one's trans identity, sharing trans content can be difcult. We studied Trans Time, a social media site developed particularly for trans people to document transition and build community. We interviewed early Trans Time users (n = 6) and conducted focus groups with potential users (n = 21) to understand how a trans-specifc site uniquely supports its users. We found that Trans Time has the potential to be a safe space, encourages privacy, and efectively enables its users to selectively view content using content warnings. Together, safety, privacy, and content warnings create an online space where trans people can simultaneously build community, fnd support, and express both the mundanity and excitement of trans life. Yet in each of these areas, we also learned ways that the site can improve. We provide implications for how social media sites may better support trans users, as well as insular communities of people from other marginalized groups. people often use social media to connect with others, fnd and share resources, and post transition-CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); Social media; Empirical studies in collaborative and social computing.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Trans Time

Haimson

Buss

Weinger

et al. 2020

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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“…We had anticipated response from users with regards to gender representation, but failed to collect any. This observation does not mean there is currently no debate or concern about binary gender representation [43,75,53]. Instead, we believe that while our approach was successful in attracting spontaneous users and stimulating public discussion, it also introduced the challenge to reach a heterogeneous sample of the population.…”

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confidence: 94%

Biometric Mirror

Wouters

Kelly

Velloso

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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Facial analysis applications are increasingly being applied to inform decision-making processes. However, as global reports of unfairness emerge, governments, academia and industry have recognized the ethical limitations and societal implications of this technology. Alongside initiatives that aim to formulate ethical frameworks, we believe that the public should be invited to participate in the debate. In this paper, we discuss Biometric Mirror, a case study that explored opinions about the ethics of an emerging technology. The interactive application distinguished demographic and psychometric information from people's facial photos and presented speculative scenarios with potential consequences based on their results. We analyzed the interactions with Biometric Mirror and media reports covering the study. Our findings demonstrate the nature of public opinion about the technology's possibilities, reliability, and privacy implications. Our study indicates an opportunity for case study-based digital ethics research, and we provide practical guidelines for designing future studies.

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“…In this paper, we join with other mental health and social media researchers in considering the experiences of people with eating disordersand mental illness, more generally-through a history of marginalization [33,91,95]. Situating the experiences of these individuals in the context of marginalization helps us to better attend to power dynamics and differentials, acknowledge labor practices, and contribute to a growing body of literature that examines the marginalization of groups and design for more equitable online experiences [7,50,57,103,109].…”

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confidence: 99%

Conformity of Eating Disorders through Content Moderation

Feuston

Taylor

Piper

2020

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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For individuals with mental illness, social media are considered spaces for sharing and connection. However, not all expressions of mental illness are treated equally on these platforms. Different aggregates of human and technical control are used to report and ban content, accounts, and communities. Through two years of digital ethnography, including interviews with people with eating disorders, we examine the experience of content moderation. Our analysis shows that the practices of moderation available on different platforms have particular consequences for members of marginalized groups, who are pressured to conform and compelled to resist, such as through the subversion of platform features and collective action. Above all, we argue that platform moderation is enmeshed with wider processes of conformity to mental illness and body image. Practices of moderation reassert certain bodies and experiences as 'normal' and valued, while rejecting others. At the same time, practices of navigation around and resistance to these normative pressures further inscribe individuals as on the margins. We discuss changes to the ways that platforms handle content related to eating disorders by drawing on the concept of multiplicity to inform design. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI).

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Safe Spaces and Safe Places

Cited by 151 publications

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Conformity of Eating Disorders through Content Moderation

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