The Moral Risks of Online Shaming

Thomason, Krista K.

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198857815.013.8

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“…Some recipients of counterspeech (i.e., speaker behind hate speech) are not intentionally saying harmful things and could be willing to change. Therefore, call-out based [104] online shaming [131] and domination [141] which could escalate conflict or lead to harm [85] should be avoided.…”

Section: Protecting Mental Healthmentioning

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Counterspeakers’ Perspectives: Unveiling Barriers and AI Needs in the Fight against Online Hate

Mun,

Buerger,

Liang

et al. 2024

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Counterspeech, i.e., direct responses against hate speech, has become an important tool to address the increasing amount of hate online while avoiding censorship. Although AI has been proposed to help scale up counterspeech efforts, this raises questions of how exactly AI could assist in this process, since counterspeech is a deeply empathetic and agentic process for those involved. In this work, we aim to answer this question, by conducting in-depth interviews with 10 extensively experienced counterspeakers and a large scale public survey with 342 everyday social media users. In participant responses, we identified four main types of barriers and AI needs related to resources, training, impact, and personal harms. However, our results also revealed overarching concerns of authenticity, agency, and functionality in using AI tools for counterspeech. To conclude, we discuss considerations for designing AI assistants that lower counterspeaking barriers without jeopardizing its meaning and purpose. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in HCI.

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Section: Protecting Mental Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Counterspeakers’ Perspectives: Unveiling Barriers and AI Needs in the Fight against Online Hate

Mun,

Buerger,

Liang

et al. 2024

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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A Case for Shame in Character Education

Little

2023

Stud Philos Educ

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Private Censorship

Messina

2023

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Concerns about censorship have once again reached a fever pitch across the liberal West. In other historical periods, such concerns may have marked reactions to book bans and burnings. Often, they followed prosecutions and subsequent jailtime for things spoken or written. During the red scare, they were the hushed response to chilling state-sponsored watch-lists and employer-supported blacklists designed to ensure victory against communism. Against this history, complaints about the new censorship appear different. With respect to the new censorship, there are no books burnings, no prosecutions, no laws or committees. Indeed, there is no coercive state involvement at all. With a few notable exceptions, complaints about censorship in the 21st-century West are complaints about the behavior of private parties: social groups, employers, media conglomerates, social media platforms, and search engines. To better understand the concerns surrounding non-state interference with speech, Private Censorship offers an account of censorship, as well as an assessment of the ethical and political issues it raises across contexts. In addition, the book casts a critical eye on many popular proposals for responding to these complaints. Unlike these popular approaches, Private Censorship foregrounds the importance of rights to property, association, and free expression.

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The Moral Risks of Online Shaming

Cited by 13 publications

References 10 publications

Counterspeakers’ Perspectives: Unveiling Barriers and AI Needs in the Fight against Online Hate

Counterspeakers’ Perspectives: Unveiling Barriers and AI Needs in the Fight against Online Hate

A Case for Shame in Character Education

Private Censorship

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