Ada Lerner

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``How would I know what I would want from or with them?'': Supporting A-Spec Approaches to Developing Relationships Through Online Platforms

Online platforms have become a key avenue for forming new relationships, especially for queer individuals. However, some individuals, such as those in asexual and aromantic communities (A-Spec), seek forms of relationships that trouble existing frameworks assumed by online platforms, such as dating apps. To investigat…

CSCW '252nd AuthorCommunicating properly, interpreting signs

“A Blocklist is a Boundary”: Tensions between Community Protection and Mutual Aid on Federated Social Networks

The Fediverse (the network encompassing Mastodon, Pleroma, Lemmy, etc.) provides a decentralized alternative to traditional social media platforms, making it both an important refuge for marginalized users and a platform which is well-suited for conducting mutual aid. One emergent type of moderation action for maintai…

CSCW '24CorrespondingSession 3c: Evolving Approaches to Privacy

Privacy Norms of Transformative Fandom: A Case Study of an Activity-Defined Community

Transformative media fandom is a remarkably coherent, long-lived, and diverse community united primarily by shared engagement in the varied activities of fandom. Its social norms are highly-developed and frequently debated, and have been studied by the CSCW and Media Studies communities in the past, but rarely using t…

CHI '245th+ AuthorAgent Personality & Anthropomorphism +4

"It's a Fair Game", or Is It? Examining How Users Navigate Disclosure Risks and Benefits When Using LLM-Based Conversational Agents

The widespread use of Large Language Model (LLM)-based conversational agents (CAs), especially in high-stakes domains, raises many privacy concerns. Building ethical LLM-based CAs that respect user privacy requires an in-depth understanding of the privacy risks that concern users the most. However, existing research,…

CHI '244th AuthorOnline Identity & Self-Presentation +1

Counting Carrds: Investigating Personal Disclosure and Boundary Management in Transformative Fandom

The privacy practices of transformative fandom are of interest to HCI researchers both for the community's high proportion of queer members and for the community's sophisticated privacy norms and behaviors. We investigated fans' use of single-serving websites on Carrd.co ("Carrds") as personal profiles linked from Twi…

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