Gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) by design
GESI by Design (SubProject#5), (Qatar University (QU), HBKU College of Science and Engineering (CSE), HBKU College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS), we study how to mitigate issues related to Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) in social media in Qatar and the Arab world and increase awareness of them. We will use digital nudging techniques based on annotation and a bespoke set of reactions and emojis and devise tools to facilitate a structured dialogue. The aim is to encourage a more civilized and inclusive language and interaction.
In this project, we want to research and develop socio-technical approaches that promote civilized dialogue and inclusive language on social media. We will utilize Nudge and persuasion techniques to influence users to consider their posts and social interaction online and enhance empathy and respect for others. Grammarly, a software primarily designed for spelling and grammar checking, has introduced a tone detector to enhance the awareness and considerations of recipients by giving users an estimate of the tone of their language (https://www.grammarly.com/tone). A similar approach will be followed in this project for the Arabic language as a basis for the influence. Besides the individual posts, we will also design for civilized interaction and dialogues. We will research and develop a richer set of reactions that extends the classic set of Like / Dislike and provides a more profound and semantically clear set of reactions. The set included the direct reactions, e.g. ‘insightful’, “fact-based, ‘source missing’, or indirect and annotation-based, e.g. color scheme expressing the level of trust in the shared post.
Objectives
To research and develop nudging techniques (annotation based and set of bespoke emojis and reactions) to promote GESI in online forums.
To test the techniques and draw recommendations on their adoption in the Arab online forums.
To research and develop online forums that empower civilized arguments by their design as a way to enhance GESI online.
Meet GESI Team members...
OSAMA HALABI
GESI by design
RAIAN ALI
DENA AL THANI
MARWA QARAQE
ALAA ZIYUD
RABAB ALI ABUMALLOH
Publications
Abumalloh, Rabab Ali; Halabi, Osama; Abu-Ras, Wahiba; Ali, Raian
User correction against the violation of gender equality and social inclusion on social media? The role of the perceived sense of power, social inclusion, and social exclusion Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good, pp. 292–300, Association for Computing Machinery, Bremen, Germany, 2024, ISBN: 9798400710940.
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abstract = {Social media presents an avenue for increasing people relatedness and building communities but also can enable harmful communication including violating Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) principles. Besides technical solutions like natural language processing and user profiling; user corrections, where people actively challenge GESI violations, are crucial, due to the limitations of technical solutions in detecting sarcasm and humor and understanding context and linguistic styles. Several personal factors influence whether a person commits to pro-social behavior on social media and challenges others who violate GESI principles. In this paper, we study the impact of the factor of users' perceived sense of power on social media, specifically, the extent to which they believe they have control over resources, interactions, or events. We also study the role of perceived social exclusion and inclusion on social media, referring to the extent to which users feel connected, respected, heard, or neglected, avoided, and isolated, respectively. Through an online survey, we collected data from 325 participants from the United Kingdom (UK) and 312 participants from the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), all of whom endorse GESI principles. The study results indicate that the sense of power enhances perceptions of social inclusion and mitigates feelings of social exclusion on social media platforms across both samples. The mediation analysis supported the full mediation role of social inclusion between the sense of power and challenging others who violate GESI in the Arab sample but was rejected in the UK sample. Additionally, social exclusion fully mediated this relationship in the Arab sample, whereas it only partially mediated it in the UK sample. We utilize the findings and argue the case that good social media platforms should be designed to enhance users' perceptions of power and inclusion while minimizing feelings of exclusion, to encourage more active engagement and expression of opinions.},
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Abumalloh, Rabab Ali; Halabi, Osama; Abu-Ras, Wahiba; Ali, Raian
User correction against the violation of gender equality and social inclusion on social media? The role of the perceived sense of power, social inclusion, and social exclusion Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good, pp. 292–300, 2024.
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Abumalloh, Rabab Ali; Halabi, Osama; Ali, Raian; Al-Thani, Dena
Nudging Techniques: Design, Theoretical Grounds, and Ethical View Journal Article
In: Journal of the Knowledge Economy, pp. 1–33, 2024.
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Abumalloh, Rabab; Alfadala, Asmaa; Halabi, Osama; Ali, Raian
Exploring the Intent-Behavior Gap in Social Media Advocacy for Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Proceedings Article
In: 2024.
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title = {Exploring the Intent-Behavior Gap in Social Media Advocacy for Gender Equality and Social Inclusion},
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Abumalloh, Rabab Ali; Gurgun, Selin; Noman, Muaadh; Phalp, Keith; Halabi, Osama; Katos, Vasilis; Ali, Raian
Empathy vs Reluctance to Challenge Misinformation: The Mediating Role of Relationship Costs, Perspective Taking, and Need for Cognition Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, pp. 376–392, Springer 2024.
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