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Feminist HCI for real: designing technology in support of a social movement

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dc.contributor.advisor Bruckman, Amy S.
dc.contributor.author Dimond, Jill Patrice en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember Bardzell, Shaowen
dc.contributor.committeeMember Bauschspies, Wenda
dc.contributor.committeeMember Gilbert, Eric
dc.contributor.committeeMember Mynatt, Elizabeth D.
dc.contributor.department Computing en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2013-01-17T21:00:28Z
dc.date.available 2013-01-17T21:00:28Z
dc.date.issued 2012-08-20 en_US
dc.description.abstract How are technologies are designed and used tactically by activists? As the HCI community starts to contend with social inequalities, there has been debate about how HCI researchers should address approach this type of research. However, there is little research examining practitioners such as social justice activists who confront social problems, and are using technology, such as mobile phones, blogging, and social media to do so. In this dissertation, I build on this knowledge within the context of a social movement organization working to stop street harassment (harassment towards women and minorities in public) called Hollaback (ihollaback.org). I position myself as an action researcher doing research and building technologies such as mobile apps and a blogging platform to collect stories of harassment and to support activists. The organization has collected over 3000 stories and represents 50 different locales in 17 countries. Through a series of studies, I examined how technology impacts the organization, activists, and those who contribute stories of harassment. I found evidence that the storytelling platform helps participants fundamentally shift their cognitive and emotional orientation towards their experience and informs what activists do on the ground. My results suggest that doing activism using technology can help remove some barriers to participation but can also lower expectations for the amount of work required. I also looked at how different social media tactics can increase the number of followers and how traditional media plays a role in these tactics. My work contributes theoretically to the HCI community by building on social movement theory, feminist HCI, and action research methodology. My investigation also sheds light empirically on how technology plays a role in a social movement organization, and how it impacts those who participate. en_US
dc.description.degree PhD en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/45778
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject Feminist HCI en_US
dc.subject HCI en_US
dc.subject Social computing en_US
dc.subject CSCW en_US
dc.subject Social movements en_US
dc.subject Action research en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Social networks
dc.subject.lcsh Online social networks
dc.subject.lcsh Human-computer interaction
dc.subject.lcsh Teams in the workplace Data processing
dc.title Feminist HCI for real: designing technology in support of a social movement en_US
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dc.type.genre Dissertation
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local.contributor.advisor Bruckman, Amy S.
local.contributor.corporatename College of Computing
local.contributor.corporatename School of Interactive Computing
local.relation.ispartofseries Doctor of Philosophy with a Major in Human-Centered Computing
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