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The Enshittification of the Creative Internet

The creative internet is a network of online platforms, creative people, and communities where artists learn and grow together while also showcasing their artwork to others. While this space of people, technology, and routine presentation of art once held such promise for creatives, for many, that place is something t…

Ellen Simpson et al.University of Colorado

Content Creation & Creators

The Power of Language: Resisting Western Heteropatriarchal Normative Writing Standards

Language is more than communication; it is a form of power. Whereas science has been scrutinized for privileging Western values and norms, what has been less explored is scientific linguistic performance (e.g. writing). The enforcement of English as the “normative standard” has prioritized hegemonic values and assumpt…

Divyanshu Kumar Singh et al.University of Colorado

Infrastructures for Inspiration: The Routine of Creative Identity Through Inspiration on the Creative Internet

Online, visual artists have more places than ever to routinely share their creative work and connect with other artists. These interactions support the routine enactment of creative identity in artists and provide inspirational opportunities for artists. As creative work shifts online, interactions between artists and…

Ellen Simpson et al.University of Colorado

Expression-in-action and Expression-on-action: A Systematic Review of Mediums for Expression in Mental Health

Expression facilitates the externalization of personal experiences and inner states (e.g., thoughts and emotions) embedded in everyday life. Yet, in mental health contexts, expression is often marginalized or systematically and structurally excluded from technology and system design. While HCI scholarship has explored…

Tian Xu et al.University of Colorado

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Reimagining Communities through Transnational Bengali Decolonial Discourse with YouTube Content Creators

Colonialism--the policies and practices wherein a foreign body imposes its ways of life on local communities--has historically impacted how collectives perceive themselves in relation to others. One way colonialism has impacted how people see themselves is through nationalism, where nationalism is often understood thr…

Dipto Das et al.University of Colorado

Session 2e: Empowerment and Agency in Digital Labor

The Politics of Fear and the Experience of Bangladeshi Religious Minority Communities Using Social Media Platforms

Despite significant research on online harm, polarization, public deliberation, and justice, CSCW still lacks a comprehensive understanding of the experiences of religious minorities, particularly in relation to fear, as prominently evident in our study. Gaining faith-sensitive insights into the expression, participat…

Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat et al.University of Toronto

Session 3e: Content Moderation and Marginalized Experiences

Negotiating Sociotechnical Boundaries: Moderation Work to Counter Racist Attacks in Online Communities

Online communities are susceptible to racist attacks, even when community policies explicitly prohibit racism. Drawing on the concept of symbolic boundary, we explored how community members sustained their communities against the perpetuation of racist logics and practices on Reddit. We drew on trace ethnography to an…

Qunfang Wu et al.Harvard University

The ``Colonial Impulse" of Natural Language Processing: An Audit of Bengali Sentiment Analysis Tools and Their Identity-based Biases

While colonization has sociohistorically impacted people's identities across various dimensions, those colonial values and biases continue to be perpetuated by sociotechnical systems. One category of sociotechnical systems--sentiment analysis tools--can also perpetuate colonial values and bias, yet less attention has…

Dipto Das et al.University of Colorado

"How Do You Quantify How Racist Something Is?": Color-Blind Moderation in Decentralized Governance

Volunteer moderators serve as gatekeepers for problematic content, such as racism and other forms of hate speech, on digital platforms. Prior studies have reported volunteer moderators' diverse roles in different governance models, highlighting the tensions between moderators and other stakeholders (e.g., administrati…

Qunfang Wu et al.Harvard University

Race and Bias

"Hey, Can You Add Captions?": The Critical Infrastructuring Practices of Neurodiverse People on TikTok

Accessibility efforts, how we can make the world usable and useful to as many people as possible, have explicitly focused on how we can support and allow for the autonomy and independence of people with disabilities, neurotypes, chronic conditions, and older adults. Despite these efforts, not all technology is designe…

Ellen Simpson et al.University of Colorado

Accessibility

Rethinking Creative Labor: A Sociotechnical Examination of Creativity & Creative Work on TikTok

Social media platform success relies on users to consume, create, and share creative content. While some creatives aspire to become influencers, this is not the goal of all creatives, particularly those with smaller audiences. Through an interview study of 15 creatives on TikTok, we explore the often overlapping inten…

Ellen Simpson et al.University of Colorado

Conversations About Crime: Re-enforcing and Fighting Against Platformed Racism on Reddit

With the emergence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), people are being exposed to an increased volume of crime-related information, which induces fear. While the fear of crime has been explored around people’s experiences with crime, little is known about how people frame their conversations about c…

Qunfang Wu et al.Harvard University

Online Community Governance; Online Community Governance

Collaborative Identity Decolonization as Reclaiming Narrative Agency: Identity Work of Bengali Communities on Quora

While people's identities can be marginalized through various forces, colonialism is one of the primary ways that continues to influence people's lives and identities. Colonialism refers to the policies and practices where foreign powers migrate to other lands and alter the social structures, and thus identities, of l…

Dipto Das et al.University of Colorado

``Jol" or ``Pani"?: How Does Governance Shape a Platform's Identity?

In this paper, we explore how sociotechnical systems support and impede the identity performances and identity expression of communities that have experienced a long history of colonialism, where colonization is the practice through which a foreign power reshapes the social structures and systems of other societies. W…

Dipto Das et al.University of Colorado

Online Identities

Paper Title	Authors	Research Topics
The Enshittification of the Creative Internet The creative internet is a network of online platforms, creative people, and communities where artists learn and grow together while also showcasing their artwork to others. While this space of people, technology, and routine presentation of art once held such promise for creatives, for many, that place is something t…	ES Ellen Simpson et al.University of Colorado	Content Creation & Creators
The Power of Language: Resisting Western Heteropatriarchal Normative Writing Standards Language is more than communication; it is a form of power. Whereas science has been scrutinized for privileging Western values and norms, what has been less explored is scientific linguistic performance (e.g. writing). The enforcement of English as the “normative standard” has prioritized hegemonic values and assumpt…	DS Divyanshu Kumar Singh et al.University of Colorado
emoji_events Infrastructures for Inspiration: The Routine of Creative Identity Through Inspiration on the Creative Internet Online, visual artists have more places than ever to routinely share their creative work and connect with other artists. These interactions support the routine enactment of creative identity in artists and provide inspirational opportunities for artists. As creative work shifts online, interactions between artists and…	ES Ellen Simpson et al.University of Colorado
Expression-in-action and Expression-on-action: A Systematic Review of Mediums for Expression in Mental Health Expression facilitates the externalization of personal experiences and inner states (e.g., thoughts and emotions) embedded in everyday life. Yet, in mental health contexts, expression is often marginalized or systematically and structurally excluded from technology and system design. While HCI scholarship has explored…	TX Tian Xu et al.University of Colorado
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Reimagining Communities through Transnational Bengali Decolonial Discourse with YouTube Content Creators Colonialism--the policies and practices wherein a foreign body imposes its ways of life on local communities--has historically impacted how collectives perceive themselves in relation to others. One way colonialism has impacted how people see themselves is through nationalism, where nationalism is often understood thr…	DD Dipto Das et al.University of Colorado	Session 2e: Empowerment and Agency in Digital Labor
The Politics of Fear and the Experience of Bangladeshi Religious Minority Communities Using Social Media Platforms Despite significant research on online harm, polarization, public deliberation, and justice, CSCW still lacks a comprehensive understanding of the experiences of religious minorities, particularly in relation to fear, as prominently evident in our study. Gaining faith-sensitive insights into the expression, participat…	MR Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat et al.University of Toronto	Session 3e: Content Moderation and Marginalized Experiences
Negotiating Sociotechnical Boundaries: Moderation Work to Counter Racist Attacks in Online Communities Online communities are susceptible to racist attacks, even when community policies explicitly prohibit racism. Drawing on the concept of symbolic boundary, we explored how community members sustained their communities against the perpetuation of racist logics and practices on Reddit. We drew on trace ethnography to an…	QW Qunfang Wu et al.Harvard University
The ``Colonial Impulse" of Natural Language Processing: An Audit of Bengali Sentiment Analysis Tools and Their Identity-based Biases While colonization has sociohistorically impacted people's identities across various dimensions, those colonial values and biases continue to be perpetuated by sociotechnical systems. One category of sociotechnical systems--sentiment analysis tools--can also perpetuate colonial values and bias, yet less attention has…	DD Dipto Das et al.University of Colorado
"How Do You Quantify How Racist Something Is?": Color-Blind Moderation in Decentralized Governance Volunteer moderators serve as gatekeepers for problematic content, such as racism and other forms of hate speech, on digital platforms. Prior studies have reported volunteer moderators' diverse roles in different governance models, highlighting the tensions between moderators and other stakeholders (e.g., administrati…	QW Qunfang Wu et al.Harvard University	Race and Bias
"Hey, Can You Add Captions?": The Critical Infrastructuring Practices of Neurodiverse People on TikTok Accessibility efforts, how we can make the world usable and useful to as many people as possible, have explicitly focused on how we can support and allow for the autonomy and independence of people with disabilities, neurotypes, chronic conditions, and older adults. Despite these efforts, not all technology is designe…	ES Ellen Simpson et al.University of Colorado	Accessibility
Rethinking Creative Labor: A Sociotechnical Examination of Creativity & Creative Work on TikTok Social media platform success relies on users to consume, create, and share creative content. While some creatives aspire to become influencers, this is not the goal of all creatives, particularly those with smaller audiences. Through an interview study of 15 creatives on TikTok, we explore the often overlapping inten…	ES Ellen Simpson et al.University of Colorado
Conversations About Crime: Re-enforcing and Fighting Against Platformed Racism on Reddit With the emergence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), people are being exposed to an increased volume of crime-related information, which induces fear. While the fear of crime has been explored around people’s experiences with crime, little is known about how people frame their conversations about c…	QW Qunfang Wu et al.Harvard University	Online Community Governance; Online Community Governance
Collaborative Identity Decolonization as Reclaiming Narrative Agency: Identity Work of Bengali Communities on Quora While people's identities can be marginalized through various forces, colonialism is one of the primary ways that continues to influence people's lives and identities. Colonialism refers to the policies and practices where foreign powers migrate to other lands and alter the social structures, and thus identities, of l…	DD Dipto Das et al.University of Colorado
emoji_events ``Jol" or ``Pani"?: How Does Governance Shape a Platform's Identity? In this paper, we explore how sociotechnical systems support and impede the identity performances and identity expression of communities that have experienced a long history of colonialism, where colonization is the practice through which a foreign power reshapes the social structures and systems of other societies. W…	DD Dipto Das et al.University of Colorado	Online Identities