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Subproject #5

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

  1. To research and develop nudging techniques (annotation based and set of bespoke emojis and reactions) to promote GESI in online forums.

  2. To test the techniques and draw recommendations on their adoption in the Arab online forums.

  3. 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

Lead Principal Investigator:
GESI by design

RAIAN ALI

Principal Investigator

DENA AL THANI

Principal Investigator

MARWA QARAQE

Principal Investigator

ALAA ZIYUD

PhD Researcher

RABAB ALI ABUMALLOH

Post doctoral researcher

Publications

1.

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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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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3.

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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4.

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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5.

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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Resources

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