[Air-L] "Construction" of Users

[Seda Gurses]

hi alex,
this may be too specific, but cs folks in security and privacy research have put some thought into the construction of the user, too. i am adding some references below.

what i have observed in this same sub-field is that little attention is given to issues of race, gender, sexuality, class (and intersectional analysis) when doing user studies. some work has been done to understand “cultural differences” by which the researchers refer to understandings of privacy in different countries. others have focused on age, but all in all, studies aim to gather the experience of an “average user”. i would personally be very interested to hear of references to articles explicitly conceptualizing “the human” in HCI through an intersectional or cultural lens.


	Anne Adams and Martina Angela Sasse. Users Are Not The Enemy. In Communications of the ACM, 42 (2), 1999.
	http://hornbeam.cs.ucl.ac.uk/hcs/people/documents/Angela%20Publications/1999/p40-adams.pdf

	L. Jean Camp. Reconceptualizing the Role of Security User. In Daedalus, 140(4), 2011.
	http://www.ljean.com/files/SecurityPublicGood.pdf

	Lorrie Faith Cranor. A Framework for Reasoning About the Human in the Loop. UPSEC '08.
	https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/upsec08/tech/full_papers/cranor/cranor.pdf

	Seda Gurses and Claudia Diaz, Two tales of privacy in online social networks, IEEE Security and Privacy, 11(3), 2013.
	https://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/publications/article-2270.pdf

great thanks to everyone for the super interesting references.
cheers,
s.