Sok: Safer digital-safety research involving at-risk users

R Bellini, E Tseng, N Warford, A Daffalla… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Research involving at-risk users—that is, users who are more likely to experience a digital
attack or to be disproportionately affected when harm from such an attack occurs—can pose …

“Vulnerable, Victimized, and Objectified”: Understanding Ableist Hate and Harassment Experienced by Disabled Content Creators on Social Media

S Heung, L Jiang, S Azenkot, A Vashistha - Proceedings of the 2024 CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Content creators (eg, gamers, activists, vloggers) with marginalized identities are at-risk of
experiencing hate and harassment. This paper examines the ableist hate and harassment …

Counterspeakers' perspectives: Unveiling barriers and ai needs in the fight against online hate

J Mun, C Buerger, JT Liang, J Garland… - Proceedings of the 2024 …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Counterspeech, ie, direct responses against hate speech, has become an important tool to
address the increasing amount of hate online while avoiding censorship. Although AI has …

Disentangling perceptions of offensiveness: Cultural and moral correlates

A Davani, M Díaz, D Baker, V Prabhakaran - Proceedings of the 2024 …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Recent years have seen substantial investments in AI-based tools designed to detect
offensive language at scale, aiming to moderate social media platforms, and ensure safety …

“There's so much responsibility on users right now:” Expert Advice for Staying Safer From Hate and Harassment

M Wei, S Consolvo, PG Kelley, T Kohno… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Online hate and harassment poses a threat to the digital safety of people globally. In light of
this risk, there is a need to equip as many people as possible with advice to stay safer …

Online harassment in majority contexts: Examining harms and remedies across countries

S Schoenebeck, A Batool, G Do, S Darling… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Online harassment is a global problem. This article examines perceptions of harm and
preferences for remedies associated with online harassment with nearly 4000 participants in …

Opportunities, tensions, and challenges in computational approaches to addressing online harassment

EJ Huang, A Sarma, S Hwang… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Given the scale at which online harassment occurs, researchers and practitioners alike have
turned to computationally driven approaches to address it. However, because harassment is …

“My sex-related data is more sensitive than my financial data and I want the same level of security and privacy\": User Risk Perceptions and Protective Actions in …

M Mehrnezhad, T Almeida - … of the 2023 European Symposium on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The digitalization of the reproductive body has engaged myriads of cutting-edge
technologies in supporting people to know and tackle their intimate health. Generally …

Stoking the Flames: Understanding Escalation in an Online Harassment Community

K Take, V Zhong, C Geeng, E Bevensee… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Online harassment remains a prevalent problem for internet users. Its impact is made orders
of magnitude worse when multiple harassers coordinate to conduct networked attacks. This …

[PDF][PDF] Bridging theory & practice: examining the state of scholarship using the history of trust and safety archive

M Knittel, A Menking - Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 2024 - tsjournal.org
In June 2023, Casey Newton, an American technology journalist, asked “Have we reached
peak trust and safety?”(2023). 1 Newton was responding rhetorically to a particular moment …