Followbias: Supporting behavior change toward gender equality by Networked gatekeepers on social media

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 1082-1095

  Matias, J Nathan ^a   Szalavitz, Sarah ^b   Zuckerman, Ethan ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^b 7 Robot ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Feminist hci; Gender equality; Inductive field experiments; Personal behavior change; Social justice; Social media; Transparency; Value consistency

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GROUPWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TRANSPARENCY;

GENDER EQUALITY; INDUCTIVE FIELD; PERSONAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL MEDIA; VALUE CONSISTENCY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 85014779907     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2998181.2998287     Document Type: Conference Paper

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