Mitigating Barriers to Public Social Interaction with Meronymous Communication

Nouran Soliman·Hyeonsu B Kang·Matt Latzke...Joseph Chee Chang...
CHI·2024·15 citations🏆 Best Paper

TLDRThis work explores a design space of meronymous communication, where people can reveal carefully chosen aspects of their identity and also leverage trusted endorsers to gain credibility, in a system for scholars to meronymously seek and receive paper recommendations on Twitter and Mastodon.

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This paper's concept of meronymous communication — selective partial identity disclosure as a middle ground between full anonymity and full identification — has been adopted and extended across several research directions: it has been referenced as a strategy for suppressing identity signals to reduce bias and participation disparities in group settings, applied to identity-centric political discussions such as affirmative action debates on Reddit where researchers built directly on the meronym and endorser constructs, explored as a basis for cryptographic persona systems that enable partial disclosure on Q&A platforms, cited as an example of tools connecting junior and senior researchers across social hierarchies, and used to inform experimental design choices around pseudonymous profiles in digital group dynamics research.

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Mitigating Barriers to Public Social Interaction with Meronymous Communication

Nouran Soliman·Hyeonsu B Kang·Matt Latzke...Joseph Chee Chang...
CHI·2024·15 citations🏆 Best Paper

TLDRThis work explores a design space of meronymous communication, where people can reveal carefully chosen aspects of their identity and also leverage trusted endorsers to gain credibility, in a system for scholars to meronymously seek and receive paper recommendations on Twitter and Mastodon.

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This paper's concept of meronymous communication — selective partial identity disclosure as a middle ground between full anonymity and full identification — has been adopted and extended across several research directions: it has been referenced as a strategy for suppressing identity signals to reduce bias and participation disparities in group settings, applied to identity-centric political discussions such as affirmative action debates on Reddit where researchers built directly on the meronym and endorser constructs, explored as a basis for cryptographic persona systems that enable partial disclosure on Q&A platforms, cited as an example of tools connecting junior and senior researchers across social hierarchies, and used to inform experimental design choices around pseudonymous profiles in digital group dynamics research.

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