The Theory, Practice, and Ethical Challenges of Designing a Diversity-Aware Platform for Social Relations

Laura Schelenz; Matteo Busso; Ivano Bison; Amalia De Götzen; Daniel Gatica-Perez; Fausto Giunchiglia; Lakmal  Meegahapola; Salvador Ruiz-Correa

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The Theory, Practice, and Ethical Challenges of Designing a Diversity-Aware Platform for Social Relations

Laura Schelenz, Matteo Busso, Ivano Bison, Amalia De Götzen, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Fausto Giunchiglia, Lakmal Meegahapola, Salvador Ruiz-Correa

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Abstract

Diversity-aware platform design is a paradigm that responds to
the ethical challenges of existing social media platforms. Available
platforms have been criticized for minimizing users’ autonomy,
marginalizing minorities, and exploiting users’ data for profit maximization. This paper presents a design solution that centers the
well-being of users. It presents the theory and practice of designing
a diversity-aware platform for social relations. In this approach, the
diversity of users is leveraged in a way that allows like-minded
individuals to pursue similar interests or diverse individuals to
complement each other in a complex activity. The end users of the
envisioned platform are students, who participate in the design
process. Diversity-aware platform design involves numerous steps,
of which two are highlighted in this paper: 1) defining a framework
and operationalizing the "diversity" of students, 2) collecting "diversity" data to build diversity-aware algorithms. The paper further
reflects on the ethical challenges encountered during the design of
a diversity-aware platform.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	AIES 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society
Number of pages	11
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publication date	11 May 2021
Pages	905-915
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450384735
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3461702.3462595
Publication status	Published - 11 May 2021
Event	AIES' 21: AAAI/ACM conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society - , United States Duration: 19 May 2021 → 21 May 2021 https://www.aies-conference.com/2021/

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Conference	AIES' 21: AAAI/ACM conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society
Country/Territory	United States
Period	19/05/2021 → 21/05/2021
Internet address	https://www.aies-conference.com/2021/

Keywords

ethics
Diversity
social media
platform
diversity-aware technology

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Schelenz, L., Busso, M., Bison, I., De Götzen, A., Gatica-Perez, D., Giunchiglia, F., Meegahapola, L., & Ruiz-Correa, S. (2021). The Theory, Practice, and Ethical Challenges of Designing a Diversity-Aware Platform for Social Relations. In AIES 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (pp. 905-915). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3461702.3462595

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The Theory, Practice, and Ethical Challenges of Designing a Diversity-Aware Platform for Social Relations. / Schelenz, Laura; Busso, Matteo; Bison, Ivano et al.
AIES 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021. p. 905-915.

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