Abstract
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.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | CHI 2017 Extended Abstracts - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
| Subtitle of host publication | Explore, Innovate, Inspire |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Pages | 2528-2535 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Volume | Part F127655 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450346566 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 6 2017 |
| Event | 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2017 - Denver, United States Duration: May 6 2017 → May 11 2017 |
Other
| Other | 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2017 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Denver |
| Period | 5/6/17 → 5/11/17 |
Keywords
- AAPI
- Deliberation
- Impression management
- Online identity
- Social network sites
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
- Software