Downvoted to Oblivion: Censorship in Online, LGBTQ+ Communities

Online communities enable surveillance among LGBTQ+ users despite being used as safe spaces where users can explore their identity free from most online harms. Coercion, doxxing, and public outing are all examples of privacy violations faced. These are experienced when users fail to conform to fellow community members’ expected language and expressions of gender identity and sexuality. Current moderation systems fail to capture this peer surveillance because of the complexity of language and unspoken rules involved. This talk will explore how surveillance is enabled as well as its effects on the censorship of gender identity/expression in online LGBTQ+ communities.

Paper Link: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10200690/

Zoom link:
https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/84128296595?pwd=WJoeK08vOkhNVzLyAqbwwuDYAonFQP.1

Meeting ID: 841 2829 6595
Passcode: 505923