ABSTRACT

Although youth of color, youth from lower socioeconomic brackets, and young women are among the heaviest users of social media technologies, their voices are almost entirely absent from current conversations about ethical design. Based on a close analysis of youth-produced technological autoethnographies, this article examines underrepresented youths’ perspectives on their own social media use, as a way to inform more ethical and equitable design of digital platforms. By surfacing the ways in which socioeconomic status, race and gender shape the social media experiences of youth from underrepresented groups, our research thus advocates for the centering of difference, not universality, in digital technology design.

摘要

尽管有色人种，社会经济地位较低的年轻人和年轻妇女是社交媒体技术的最大使用者，但当前有关道德设计的讨论几乎完全没有他们的声音。在对青年人制作的技术民族志进行仔细分析的基础上，本文研究了代表性不足的青年人对自己的社交媒体使用的看法，以此来为更道德和公平的数字平台设计提供信息。通过揭示社会经济地位，种族和性别塑造来自代表性不足群体的年轻人的社交媒体体验的方式，我们的研究因此主张在数字技术设计中集中差异而不是普遍性。