Workshop & Non-Archival Paper
"What is Safety?": Building Bridges Across Approaches to Digital Risks and Harms
Ashley Marie Walker, Michael Ann DeVito, Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Rosanna Bellini, Stevie Chancellor, Jessica L. Feuston, Kathryn Henne, Patrick Gage Kelley, Shalaleh Rismani, Renee Shelby, Renwen Zhang
Companion Publication of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion '24), 2024
November 2024
Abstract
The different and distinct approaches to safety in HCI carry important meaning in their own contexts. However, strengthening shared understandings of the multiple meanings of safety in HCI has important theoretical and methodological benefits. Larger projects, such as building frameworks and engaging in policy and regulatory work, require us to look across these definitions more closely. Doing so enables us to work more effectively towards a shared understanding of digital safety which matches user perception to technical and regulatory reality. This pragmatic approach can also account for increasingly-important safety questions in AI technologies that may be very different from what concerns users about AI. To accelerate our progress towards such a shared understanding, we propose a CSCW workshop to gather key safety researchers in the CSCW community to compare, contrast, and synthesize their experiences. This is a crucial first step towards a more robust framework for discussing and doing work on online safety across multiple HCI-related subfields.
- trust & safety
- digital safety
- safety
- framework
- research methods
Cite this paper
@inproceedings{walker2024what,
title = {"What is Safety?": Building Bridges Across Approaches to Digital Risks and Harms},
author = {Walker, Ashley Marie and DeVito, Michael Ann and Badillo-Urquiola, Karla and Bellini, Rosanna and Chancellor, Stevie and Feuston, Jessica L. and Henne, Kathryn and Kelley, Patrick Gage and Rismani, Shalaleh and Shelby, Renee and Zhang, Renwen},
year = {2024},
booktitle = {Companion Publication of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion '24), 2024},
url = {https://pgk.io/papers/2024-what-is-safety-building-bridges-across-approaches-to-digital/},
}