March 2024 - change - Mailing Lists

Change Seminar 4/2: Sharon Heung on Towards Addressing Ableism on Social Media
by Lisa Orii 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

Hi all, At Change Seminar of April 2nd, we're grateful to have *Sharon Heung* (she/her) give a talk on *Towards Addressing Ableism on Social Media.* *Abstract:* Social media is essential for the disability community as an accessible alternative to socialize with others, advocate, and educate others about disability, and provide emotional and information peer support between disabled* people. While social media has fostered a sense of belonging for the disability community, disabled social media users are targets of ableism and disability-related hate online. Similar to other historically marginalized individuals, disabled people are more at-risk of experiencing identity-attacks that are damaging to their psychological and emotional well-being and may lead to self-censorship. The very platforms used for community support may also facilitate further marginalization of disabled people. In this talk, I will share my existing contributions in understanding ableism on social media: (1) ableist microaggressions experienced by disabled social media users and (2) ableist hate and harassment experienced by disabled content creators. I will highlight different forms of ableism, including ableist speech (e.g. mocking & invalidating disability identity) and instances of platform-enabled ableism (e.g. wrongful censorship). Throughout, I will emphasize the immediate emotional harm and the long-term impact of experiencing ableism online. I will then present my ongoing work towards addressing ableism on social media, including designing moderation tools to mitigate the harm of viewing ableist content. *We use the term disabled people, since identity-first language is preferred by disability rights groups, the disability justice movement, and mimics the language our participants used. *Presenter Bio:* Sharon Heung is a PhD Candidate at Cornell Tech advised by Aditya Vashistha and Shiri Azenkot. Her work is at the intersection of accessibility, human-computer interactions, and digital safety. Her research aims to understand platform-enabled ableism on social media to better support disabled people’s self-expression and safety online. This includes examining disability-related discrimination by other users and how platforms facilitate and exacerbate such harmful experiences. She hopes to reimagine a more inclusive digital space with and for the disability community. Prior to Cornell, she received her bachelor’s in Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington and worked at AT&T's Experience Design Studio research team. Her work has been supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. *Resources: *Papers on ableist microaggression <https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3517428.3544801> and ableist hate and harassment <https://www.adityavashistha.com/uploads/2/0/8/0/20800650/ableism-chi-2024.p…> . *Location:* Tuesday from 12-1pm PST in 387 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates Center) or on *Zoom:* https://washington.zoom.us/j/9744652312 <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://washington.zoom.us/j/9744652312&sa=D&s…> Best, UW Change Organizers

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Fwd: AMC SCI4E Workshop - Call for Papers
by Kurtis Heimerl 08 Mar '24

08 Mar '24

Dear colleague, We would like to welcome you to submit your research to the first ACM Workshop on Sensing, Communication, and Intelligence for Earth (SCI4E 2024). We are organizing SCI4E as a part of MobiSys 2024, and the workshop will be held on June 7th in Tokyo. This workshop is a platform for researchers to submit their early-stage work and short position papers around sensing, communication, and AI in the following applications areas, but not limited to them: ● Climate ● Conservation ● Food Security (e.g., agriculture, supply chain) ● Freshwater and Oceans ● Sustainability ● Environment ● Community Resilience The deadline to submit is April 6th, and more information can be found on the workshop website: ACM SCI4E 2024 - Call for Papers (google.com) <https://sites.google.com/stanford.edu/sci4e2024/call-for-papers> We would also appreciate it if you share this invitation with others in your network who work on related topics. Sincerely, The SCI4E organizing committee. *Vaishnavi Ranganathan (Microsoft Research)* *Zerina Kapetanovic (Stanford)* *Kurtis Heimerl (University of Washington)*

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Fw: [MD4SG] Call for Papers announcement for EAAMO’24: submit your work by April 15, 2024
by Abraham D Flaxman 06 Mar '24

06 Mar '24

Upcoming conference that grew out of the "Mechanism Design for Social Good" reading group started (in part) by UW grad students not that long ago: ________________________________ From: md4sg-announce(a)googlegroups.com <md4sg-announce(a)googlegroups.com> on behalf of MD4SG Organizers <organizers(a)md4sg.com> Sent: Monday, March 4, 2024 2:10 AM To: md4sg-announce(a)googlegroups.com <md4sg-announce(a)googlegroups.com> Cc: pc24(a)eaamo.org <pc24(a)eaamo.org> Subject: [MD4SG] Call for Papers announcement for EAAMO’24: submit your work by April 15, 2024 Dear all, On behalf of the organizers, we are excited to announce the Call for Participation for the 4th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO '24<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://conference.eaamo.org/__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!n…>). The conference will be held from October 30 to November 1, 2024 in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. EAAMO '24 will bring together academics and practitioners from diverse disciplines and sectors. The conference will highlight work along the research-to-practice pipeline aimed at improving access to opportunity for historically underserved and disadvantaged communities, as well as mitigating harms concerning inequitable and unsafe outcomes. In particular, we seek contributions from different fields that offer insights into the intersectional design and impacts of algorithms, optimization, and mechanism design with grounding in the social sciences and humanistic studies. We welcome archival and non-archival contributions to the research track as well as the policy and practice track. Submissions can include research, survey, and position papers as well as problem- and practice-driven submissions by academics and practitioners from any disciplines or sectors alike. Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: 15 April 2024, AoE Submission Notification: 18 July 2024 Paper Submission Page: coming up soon Event Dates: 30 October - 1 November 2024 The conference will offer opportunities to engage with leading experts, share innovative research and practices, and network with peers. We look forward to your participation and we encourage you to disseminate the Call for Papers to any interested colleagues. For any further inquiries about the conference, please contact the Program Chairs at pc24(a)eaamo.org or the Executive Committee at ec(a)eaamo.org. Sincerely, EAAMO '24 Organizers Program Chairs: Nick Arnosti<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nickarnosti.com/__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!n9JkpO…>, University of Minnesota Caterina Calsamiglia<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.google.com/site/caterinacalsamigl…>, IPEG Salvador Ruiz-Correa<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LJNs7…>, IPYCT John P. Dickerson<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://jpdickerson.com/__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!n9JkpO…>, Arthur & University of Maryland -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "md4sg-announce" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to md4sg-announce%2Bunsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:md4sg-announce+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/md4sg-announce/CAOEMdcZXoPha%3D6tTTUVMmGX…<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/md4sg-announc…>.

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Change Seminar 3/5: Sharifa Sultana - Shishushurokkha: A transformative justice approach for combating child sexual abuse in Bangladesh
by Ananditha Raghunath 01 Mar '24

01 Mar '24

Hi all, This week at Change, we're grateful to have *Sharifa Sultana* (she/her) give a talk on *Shishushurokkha: A transformative justice approach for combating child sexual abuse in Bangladesh* Description: Sharifa is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at UIUC. Her areas of expertise lie at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD), a growing area of study that focuses on the interplay between global development and technologies. Sharifa’s research focuses on studying and building computing technologies for recognizing the identities and values of and justice with marginalized communities. She deploys a variety of qualitative, quantitative, and design methodologies to probe and address social justice agendas in low-resource, marginalized communities. She has conducted several long-term ethnographic field studies in Bangladesh to reveal the challenges that rural populations and minorities face, and built computing technologies to improve the quality of their lives. She employs critical social science theories in building computing systems that relate to understanding and overcoming the challenges of marginalization, oppression, and injustice. She has published the results of her work at top-tier conferences such as ACM CHI, ACM CSCW, and ACM ICTD. Her work has received a best paper award, a best paper honorable mention, and a diversity and inclusion recognition. She is a recipient of the Facebook Fellowship, and she won multiple grants on collaborative projects funded by Meta and the Bangladesh ICT Ministry. Bio: The challenge of designing against child sexual abuse becomes more complicated in conservative societies where talking about sex is taboo. My mixed-method study investigated the common nature, location, and time of the abuse, post-incident support, and possible combating strategies. Besides revealing important facts, our findings highlight the need of decentering the design from the victims (children and/or guardians) to the community. Hence, building on the theory of transformative justice, we prototyped and evaluated ‘ShishuShurokkha’ – an online tool that involves the whole community by allowing anonymous bystander reporting, visualizing case maps, connecting with legal, medical, and social support, and raising awareness. The evaluation of ShishuShurokkha shows the promise for such a communal approach toward combating child sexual abuse, and highlights the needs for sincere involvement of the government, NGOs, the legal, educational, and religious services in this. Resources: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3491102.3517543 We hope to see you there! Check out our website: www.change.washington.edu Location: Tuesday from 12-1pm PST in 387 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates Center) or on Zoom: Https://washington.zoom.us/j/91639643408 <https://washington.zoom.us/j/91639643408> Best, UW Change Organizers

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