TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring AAPI identity online
T2 - 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2017
AU - Dosono, Bryan
AU - Semaan, Bryan
AU - Hemsley, Jeff
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM).
PY - 2017/5/6
Y1 - 2017/5/6
N2 - Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) are often perceived as a monolithic group, despite their distinct composition of ethnic cultures, political ideologies, and socioeconomic backgrounds. AAPIs increasingly engage in online forums to disclose their experiences and opinions, and in doing so, take part in lengthy discussions that shape the views of their community. We retrieved over 72,000 Reddit comments posted between January to July 2016 for a mixed-methods study of AAPI identity work, analyzing discursive patterns of user-deleted and banned comments. We found that while conservative AAPIs tend to comment anonymously more frequently, progressive AAPIs are less likely to ban comments that did not fit the behavior and norms of their community. AAPI redditors engage differently between conservative and progressive online communities through a process of what we conceptualize as identity work as deliberation.
AB - Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) are often perceived as a monolithic group, despite their distinct composition of ethnic cultures, political ideologies, and socioeconomic backgrounds. AAPIs increasingly engage in online forums to disclose their experiences and opinions, and in doing so, take part in lengthy discussions that shape the views of their community. We retrieved over 72,000 Reddit comments posted between January to July 2016 for a mixed-methods study of AAPI identity work, analyzing discursive patterns of user-deleted and banned comments. We found that while conservative AAPIs tend to comment anonymously more frequently, progressive AAPIs are less likely to ban comments that did not fit the behavior and norms of their community. AAPI redditors engage differently between conservative and progressive online communities through a process of what we conceptualize as identity work as deliberation.
KW - AAPI
KW - Deliberation
KW - Impression management
KW - Online identity
KW - Reddit
KW - Social network sites
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U2 - 10.1145/3027063.3053185
DO - 10.1145/3027063.3053185
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85019571274
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 2528
EP - 2535
BT - CHI 2017 Extended Abstracts - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 6 May 2017 through 11 May 2017
ER -