A Friendly Zone or Malicious One?

Research on Social Media Platforms for LGBTQ Groups

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211020.269How to use a DOI?

Keywords

LGBTQ groups, social media, offline context

Abstract

Contemporarily, LGBTQ groups have gained increased attention on social media in China. In this paper, the social media environment for LGBTQ groups in China has been investigated. Plenty of literatrues argue that social media is an empowering tool for this marginalized group because of its role in learning, exploration, communication, interaction, and identity construction. Based on the results, these functions could also be fulfilled in the offline context and the downsides of social media would overwhelm these advantages. Besides, the unregulated cyber bullying is oppressing different views, regardless of its correctness. If we want to create an all-group friendly social media platform, many changes of design features need to be realized.

Copyright

© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuge Sun
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/21
TI  - A Friendly Zone or Malicious One?
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Relations and Social Sciences (ICPRSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 857
EP  - 861
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211020.269
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.269
ID  - Sun2021
ER  -