AlterConf Dublin 2016
2016-08-06
Dublin, Ireland
who it's for
community managers, diversity and inclusion leads, trust and safety moderators, product designers, developers, LGBT advocates and organisers, people operations professionals
topics
building accessible communities; online safety and moderation; content filtering and users; harassment and fear debugging; inclusive naming and language; leadership and power dynamics; LGBT online experiences; digital exile and displacement; safety in online spaces; community trust practices
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| We want to believe, but we don't | Jacqueline Russell | 10m |
Claims that diversity makes better products are backed here by concrete failures and fixes: image-tagging algorithms that mislabel people as animals, Google… | ||
| Building an Accessible Community | Jenny Wong | 33m |
WordCamp London 2016 treats accessibility as concrete choices: it pays about child care £2,000 for a creche (one child used it in year zero but continuity… | ||
| Debugging Fear | Ingrid Epure | 25m |
A concrete method for debugging fear: map the biology (pituitary→adrenal→adrenaline, cortisol causes fatigue and inflammation; oxytocin reduces cortisol), run… | ||
| The Robotic CEO... | Eilís Ní Fhlannagáin | 22m |
Argues that automation targets working-class jobs and now CEOs, citing IBM Watson and Ross replacing legal research; gives concrete numbers: 13.6 million US… | ||
| Lessons from a life of exile | Daniel Irvine | 22m |
Claims include widespread queer migration from Ireland to London a documented 68% pay gap for men with same sex attractions and employment risk in 29 US states… | ||
| Safety in Online Spaces | February Keeney | 13m |
GitHub’s Community and Safety team defines online safety as the ability to participate without fear of virtual or real‑world reprisal and gives concrete… | ||
| How LGBT peoples' lives have been changed by the Internet | Anna Wilson | 29m |
Internet access changes outcomes: the Marriage Equality campaign wins 62–38 referendum by organizing with a Google Doc canvass list and WhatsApp coordination… | ||
| Becoming Feerless: Lessons Learned from Building Tools for Mental Health | Danielle Leong | 09m |
A crowdsourced tool called Feerless is a Chrome extension that posts crowdsourced trigger warnings for Netflix by letting users tag timestamps and metadata for… | ||
| A name that disempowers | Ariane | 11m |
A trans employee has a legal deadname stuck to passport, credit card and employment contract, and HR glues in local workarounds that later fail; Gmail and the… | ||
| Who are Internet Filters for? | Alyssa Ross | 15m |
Claim: internet filters often block essential support resources — Kiddle blocks "transgender" and "bisexual" and even "child abuse" — while failing to reliably… | ||
| nothing matches | ||