The Gender, Online Safety, and Sexuality (GOSS) workshop aims to foster community around the study of online safety through the lenses of gender and sexuality. GOSS specifically seeks to share ideas, stimulate conversations, and build collaborations by creating space for current perspectives and future directions related to gender, sexuality, and online safety. Given the growing number of security and privacy researchers who study and work to mitigate online harms that impact communities and individuals marginalized by gender or sexuality, this effort includes but is not limited to addressing intimate partner violence (IPV), image-based sexual abuse (IBSA), as well as LGBTQIA+ and women and girls' online safety.
GOSS is interested in advancing the integration of feminist, queer, and critical theories into SOUPS scholars' research. Our topics of interest bridge qualitative inquiry from social science with technical security and privacy towards building enduring online safety for people of all genders and sexualities. We welcome scholars in user-centered security, privacy, online safety, HCI, gender and sexuality studies, legal and policy, trust and safety, or at any of the intersections of the above.
In mitigating security and privacy harms with a gender or sexual component, usable security and privacy has so far focused on individual perspectives, such as in addressing IPV and technology-facilitated violence. As this subfield develops, we hope to expand towards broader societal views of gender and sexuality and their interactions with holistic online safety. Societal frames of gender and sexuality are complementary to individual frames towards expanding an interdisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners dedicated to high-impact research and practice on these topics. Such centering of gender and sexuality within usable privacy and security is critical for our SOUPS community. The 2nd GOSS workshop follows the inaugural iteration conducted last year, which successfully gathered dozens of participants in-person and online.
We will solicit submissions of two types: (1) up to a one-page position paper of completed work detailing relevance to GOSS to be presented as a lightning talk, and new! (2) up to two-page extended abstract on work in progress (WIP) to encourage participants to submit ongoing work. The second type of submission is intended for researchers to gain constructive and supportive feedback during the workshop towards progressing their work, particularly related to introduction/research framing, background literature, and methods. We will prioritize submissions that relay the relevance to the workshop.
The workshop will start with a welcome session, followed by a panel. We will then transition into breakout discussions before lunch. The afternoon proceeds with lightning talks leading into WIP presentation and feedback, before closing.
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