tools for commensality 🧿Look what came in the mail!
"How technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology"
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Oliver Haimson
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Assistant Professor at University of Michigan School of Information researching social computing, HCI, designing trans tech, social media, identity transitions, content moderation. he/him
Jonand really the fediverse as a whole, not just Mastodon -- https://wedistribute.org/2023/06/a-partial-queer-trans-and-non-binary-history-of-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/
But also, even though trans people have played such a huge role in the fediverse, notice where the press attention, funding, book deals, etc primarily goes ... that's right, to cis people.
A (partial) queer, trans, and non-binary history of Mastodon and the fediverse
Happy Pride! Today, we're digging into the roots of the fediverse - the many queer, trans, and non-binary people who helped build the Fediverse.
Exciting news: I wrote a book! Trans Technologies will be published on Feb. 25 by @themitpress. Now accepting pre-orders but will also be available free open-access. Half of all author royalties will be donated to trans BIPOC organizations. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551861/trans-technologies/
Excited to share this new article led by @averose and co-authored by Kristi Gamarel: "Technology for transgender healthcare: Access, precarity & community care," now published in Social Science & Medicine!
We discuss the care that goes into trans health technologies, as well as their precarious nature.
The article is free open-access, and part of the special issue on "Unequal Care: Trans Medicine and Health in Dangerous Times."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953624001576
Ben WaberNext was an excellent talk by @haimson on trans technologies at UC Irvine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm9cJD3aIk4 (7/10) #HCI #trans
University of California, Irvine - Informatics Seminar Series: Trans Technologies
new article out now in Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies, led by Jules Madzia with @tee et al.: "Gender-Affirming Surgeons’ Attitudes toward Social Media Communication with Patients"! We highlight both negative and positive implications of gender-affirming surgeons communicating with patients online 🏳️‍⚧️👩‍⚕️ https://bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/2/3-4/4/
Gender-Affirming Surgeons’ Attitudes toward Social Media Communication with Patients - Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies
Online spaces are increasingly important for transgender people who are considering gender-affirming surgeries to find information, ask questions, and communicate with each other. While many surgical resources are community-generated, the onus of providing medical information about surgery should be on the surgical team. We sought to understand the potential for an online space for surgeon and community engagement. We assessed gender-affirming surgeon perspectives on online communication and communities by conducting a survey (*N* = 55) to understand current social media use and gauge surgeons' opinions related to participating in online spaces. We found that gender-affirming surgeons were not generally in support of a new online platform for patient-surgeon communication, with 67% responding that a new platform was not needed. Participants identified potential negative implications including risks to patients (e.g., misinformation, liability, and platform use in emergency situations) and risks to surgeons (e.g., the additional burden that the platform would place on their already-limited time, changes to surgeon culture, and safety concerns related to online harassment). Potential positive implications include opportunities to improve patient education and enhance patient care. Our results establish empirical understanding of social media use patterns among gender-affirming surgeons and may inform the design of resources to enable trans patients to receive the information and care that they require when considering and undergoing gender-affirming surgery.
Dr Carolina Are /BloggerOnPoleV interesting to hear that, on the Bodies panel, the excitement over AI has not made it into the sextech space - quite the opposite: @KathAlbury & @haimson raised the limits of reaching communities and verifying sex-related AI generated info. Great to hear that ChatGPT seems v trans affirming tho! #AoIR2023
For those in/near Ann Arbor, please join us on October 10 for Trans Studies in the Virtual Age: A Conversation and Q&A with Sandy Stone and Cassius Adair! @cassius
Trans/Queer in HCI Career Advice Panel! job market Q&A for trans and queer graduate students and early-career researchers in HCI. panelists from academia and industry. Tuesday, September 19 5-6:30pm ET on Zoom.
to receive the Zoom link, please email [email protected]
to receive the Zoom link, please email [email protected]
here's the full link in case that one's not working: https://umich.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e2qn8jN8kQBuZqC