5 papers
Decolonial Discourse in Postcolonial Contexts: How YouTubers Negotiate Audience Tensions, Platform Governance, and State Influence
Dipto Das, Bryan Semaan
Decolonial discourse on online platforms is often framed in terms of creator motivations and expressive possibilities. In this paper, we examine what it takes to sustain such disco…
Beyond Categories of Caste: Examining Caste Bias and Morality in Text-to-Image AI Models
Divyanshu Kumar Singh, Dipto Das, Deepika Rama Subramanian +3
Text-to-Image (T2I) models have shown promising utility across various domains. However, such models are also amplifying harmful societal biases in their outputs. In the context of…
How do datasets, developers, and models affect biases in a low-resourced language?: The Case of the Bengali Language
Dipto Das, Shion Guha, Bryan Semaan
Sociotechnical systems, such as language technologies, frequently exhibit identity-based biases. These biases exacerbate the experiences of historically marginalized communities an…
The Politics of Fear and the Experience of Bangladeshi Religious Minority Communities Using Social Media Platforms
Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat, Dipto Das, Arpon Podder +4
Despite significant research on online harm, polarization, public deliberation, and justice, CSCW still lacks a comprehensive understanding of the experiences of religious minoriti…
Reimagining Communities through Transnational Bengali Decolonial Discourse with YouTube Content Creators
Dipto Das, Dhwani Gandhi, Bryan Semaan
Colonialism--the policies and practices wherein a foreign body imposes its ways of life on local communities--has historically impacted how collectives perceive themselves in relat…