Baking Gender Into Social Media Design: How Platforms Shape Categories for Users and Advertisers
In recent years, several popular social media platforms have launched freeform custom gender fields. This decision reconstitutes gender categories beyond an oppressive binary only permitting “males” and “females.” In this work, we uncover many different user-facing gender category design strategies...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2016-10-01
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| Series: | Social Media + Society |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305116672486 |