TY - GEN
T1 - "Digital Sanctums of Empowerment"
T2 - 25th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2022
AU - Sengupta, Subhasree
AU - Tacheva, Zhasmina
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/11/8
Y1 - 2022/11/8
N2 - Work and learning are essential facets of human life and legacy, yet sociocultural barriers may limit access to them. Historically, women have faced multiple restrictions that have hindered their entry into professional ventures. These constraints are even more palpable in technical domains, due to the added sociocultural barriers in these fields which have relegated women's voices to the margins. Through a mixed-methods comparative investigation of three professional development communities on Reddit - two focused on women, and one general professional online community serving as the baseline, we report and discuss the resilience-building, empowerment, and knowledge-development tactics that drive collective identity formation in these subreddits. The long-term goal of this work is to address the way in which such channels can be designed, maintained, and curated to offer spaces for enrichment, empowerment, and advocacy with a focus on professional development for women in technical domains.
AB - Work and learning are essential facets of human life and legacy, yet sociocultural barriers may limit access to them. Historically, women have faced multiple restrictions that have hindered their entry into professional ventures. These constraints are even more palpable in technical domains, due to the added sociocultural barriers in these fields which have relegated women's voices to the margins. Through a mixed-methods comparative investigation of three professional development communities on Reddit - two focused on women, and one general professional online community serving as the baseline, we report and discuss the resilience-building, empowerment, and knowledge-development tactics that drive collective identity formation in these subreddits. The long-term goal of this work is to address the way in which such channels can be designed, maintained, and curated to offer spaces for enrichment, empowerment, and advocacy with a focus on professional development for women in technical domains.
KW - Content analysis
KW - Gender in the workplace
KW - Network analysis
KW - Online community norms and practice
KW - Reddit
KW - Resilience building and support
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U2 - 10.1145/3500868.3559454
DO - 10.1145/3500868.3559454
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85143846043
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 89
EP - 93
BT - CSCW 2022 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2022 Computer Supported Cooperative Workand Social Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 8 November 2022 through 22 November 2022
ER -