Safe spaces in online places: social media and LGBTQ youth

Lucero, Leanna

doi:10.1080/2005615x.2017.1313482

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“…Virtual worlds can be safe spaces for autistic youth [72] where they can connect with other people through virtual communication and take part in social experiences at their own pace. To some extent social media sites can enable safe spaces for LGBTQ+ users [13,58], where they can share about their experiences, but may be subject to harassment depending on who views the content shared. For trans people in particular, who face substantial challenges to safety, Scheuerman et al [76] argued that "the same tools that aford safety for trans individuals... also aford targeting, infltrating, and abusing them."…”

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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: Safe Spacesmentioning

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Trans Time

Haimson

Buss

Weinger

et al. 2020

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“…• Building Inclusive Socio-technical Communities: Lucero et al argues that social media technologies are a mechanism for LGBTQ people to comfortably explore their own identity [35]. Meanwhile, within the software engineering community, the use of social communication channels to learn and do work is now widespread [36], and this has raised questions about the experiences of women in this new environment (see [37]).…”

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How Remote Work Can Foster a More Inclusive Environment for Transgender Developers

Ford

Milewicz

Serebrenik

2019

2019 IEEE/ACM 2nd International Workshop on Gender Equality in Software Engineering (GE)

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In this position paper, we claim that remote work offers a mechanism of control for identity disclosure and empowerment of software developers from marginalized communities. By talking to several transgender software developers we identified three themes that resonate across the trans experience and intersect with the advantages to working in software development remotely: identity disclosure, high-impact technical work and the autonomy to disengage and re-engage. Based on these themes we identify several open questions that the research community should address.

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“…Should PWD have to spend time educating people about their disease while also coping with that disease themselves? Educating the majority and able-bodied individuals is an ongoing conversation and one of the primary reasons such safe spaces have been created in the first place [12,46,67].…”

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2020

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Social computing provides a variety of challenges and opportunities for people who are experiencing cognitive decline. Following a recent diagnosis of dementia, older adults sometimes engage in online communities designated for people with dementia. In this work, we analyzed all original posts from a seven-year period on a forum for persons with dementia to understand 1) who posts in this forum and 2) what kinds of social support posters seek to gain from this engagement. Our analyses indicate that, in addition to people with dementia, a variety of dementia-related stakeholders create original posts in this forum. Our results suggest that seeking and offering social support are key activities for all forum users, not just those with dementia for whom the forum was designated. Given these findings, we offer design implications for online spaces for vulnerable communities, with a focus on design that allows for external stakeholder participation while still maintaining the privacy and safety of vulnerable members of the community. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Collaborative and social computing design and evaluation methods;

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Safe spaces in online places: social media and LGBTQ youth

Cited by 133 publications

References 21 publications

Trans Time

Trans Time

How Remote Work Can Foster a More Inclusive Environment for Transgender Developers

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