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TY - GEN
T1 - Building and Restructuring Social Media Platforms for Non-Binary Users
T2 - Pilot Survey of Non-Binary Social Media Users
AU - O'Reilly-Kime, Molly
PY - 2023/9/19
Y1 - 2023/9/19
N2 - The past ten years has seen a positive trend in people openly identifying outside of the gender binary, as knowledge of Non-Binary identities becomes more widespread and accepted. In an increasingly online world, there is pressure on social media platforms to accommodate these diverse gender identities. In online spaces driven by self-expression, Non-Binary users feel frustrated and forgotten by the lack of diversity in the options they are presented with. There is also an absence of standardisation across platforms: it seems every social media site has its own idea of how to tackle the problem. In this work in progress, I present the findings of a pilot study carried out in March 2022, wherein I asked Non-Binary social media users about their experiences across various social media platforms. The results of this study create the foundation of a larger user study that will explore these questions in more depth, and inform proposed guidelines and standardisation for social media platforms in accommodating diverse gender options.
AB - The past ten years has seen a positive trend in people openly identifying outside of the gender binary, as knowledge of Non-Binary identities becomes more widespread and accepted. In an increasingly online world, there is pressure on social media platforms to accommodate these diverse gender identities. In online spaces driven by self-expression, Non-Binary users feel frustrated and forgotten by the lack of diversity in the options they are presented with. There is also an absence of standardisation across platforms: it seems every social media site has its own idea of how to tackle the problem. In this work in progress, I present the findings of a pilot study carried out in March 2022, wherein I asked Non-Binary social media users about their experiences across various social media platforms. The results of this study create the foundation of a larger user study that will explore these questions in more depth, and inform proposed guidelines and standardisation for social media platforms in accommodating diverse gender options.
KW - non-binary
KW - Social Media
KW - Pronouns
KW - Gender
U2 - 10.1145/3605655.3617071
DO - 10.1145/3605655.3617071
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SP - 11:1-11:3
BT - ECCE '23: Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2023
PB - ACM
CY - New York
ER -