Building and Restructuring Social Media Platforms for Non-Binary Users : Pilot Survey of Non-Binary Social Media Users

O'Reilly-Kime, Molly (2023) Building and Restructuring Social Media Platforms for Non-Binary Users : Pilot Survey of Non-Binary Social Media Users. In: ECCE '23: Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2023 :. ACM, New York, 11:1-11:3. ISBN 9798400708756

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Abstract

The past ten years has seen a positive trend in people openly identifying outside of the gender binary, as knowledge of Non-Binary identities becomes more widespread and accepted. In an increasingly online world, there is pressure on social media platforms to accommodate these diverse gender identities. In online spaces driven by self-expression, Non-Binary users feel frustrated and forgotten by the lack of diversity in the options they are presented with. There is also an absence of standardisation across platforms: it seems every social media site has its own idea of how to tackle the problem. In this work in progress, I present the findings of a pilot study carried out in March 2022, wherein I asked Non-Binary social media users about their experiences across various social media platforms. The results of this study create the foundation of a larger user study that will explore these questions in more depth, and inform proposed guidelines and standardisation for social media platforms in accommodating diverse gender options.