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Who Guides Whom? Negotiating Care, Religious Authority, and Technology in Bangladeshi Muslim Families
Susmita Biswas, Saiful Islam Tuhin, Faria Soroni +2
Digital technologies are reshaping how families negotiate care, authority, and responsibility, yet these dynamics remain understudied in religiously situated family life. Through i…
Data Patching
ATM Mizanur Rahman, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Sharifa Sultana
To provide data-driven quality services to their citizens, every institution determines the acceptability of the citizen data and datafied mechanisms through institutional protocol…
Assembling, Breaking, and Refusing the Mask: Agency in AI-Mediated Self-Presentation in Livestreaming
Yang Hong, Nusrat Jahan Mim, Sharifa Sultana
Our mixed-method study examines how Chinese women livestreamers use masking to construct idealized mediated personas while navigating gendered, commercial, organizational, and plat…
Bonik Somiti: A Social-market Tool for Safe, Accountable, and Harmonious Informal E-Market Ecosystem in Bangladesh
ATM Mizanur Rahman, Sharifa Sultana
People in informal e-markets often try to deal with fraud and financial harm by sharing posts, screenshots, and warnings in social media groups. However, buyers and sellers frequen…
Data Repair
ATM Mizanur Rahman, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Sharifa Sultana
This paper investigates data repair practices through a six-month-long ethnographic study in Bangladesh. Our interviews and field observations with data repairers and related stake…
Re-educating Educated Ones: A Case Study on Chakma Language Revitalization in Chittagong Hill Tracts
Avijoy Chakma, Adity Khisa, Soham Khisa +2
Indigenous languages face significant cultural oppression from official state languages, particularly in the Global South. We investigate the Bangladeshi Chakma language revitaliza…
Ghostcrafting AI: Under the Rug of Platform Labor
ATM Mizanur Rahman, Sharifa Sultana
Platform laborers play an indispensable yet hidden role in building and sustaining AI systems. Drawing on an eight-month ethnography of Bangladesh's platform labor industry and ins…
Digital Labor: Challenges, Ethical Insights, and Implications
ATM Mizanur Rahman, Sharifa Sultana
Digital workers on crowdsourcing platforms (e.g., Amazon Mechanical Turk, Appen, Clickworker, Prolific) play a crucial role in training and improving AI systems, yet they often fac…