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The goal of this one-day workshop is to build an active community of researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers who are jointly committed to leveraging human-centered artificial intelligence (HCAI) to make the internet a safer place for youth. This community will be founded on the principles of open innovation and human dignity to address some of the most salient safety issues of modern-day internet, including online harassment, sexual solicitation, and the mental health of vulnerable internet users, particularly adolescents and young adults. We will partner with Mozilla Research Foundation to launch a new open project named “MOSafely.org,” which will serve as a platform for code library, research, and data contributions that support the mission of internet safety. During the workshop, we will discuss: 1) the types of contributions and technical standards needed to advance the state-of-the art in online risk detection, 2) the practical, legal, and ethical challenges that we will face, and 3) ways in which we can overcome these challenges through the use of HCAI to create a sustainable community. An end goal of creating the MOSafely community is to offer evidence-based, customizable, robust, and low-cost technologies that are accessible to the public for youth protection.
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This content will become publicly available on October 17, 2026
Context Matters: Ethical Challenges in Research with Online Communities
While online community research is prevalent in CSCW, there are limited ethical principles for conducting research that may affect online communities. At the same time, a growing body of evidence suggests that traditional ethical review focused on research with individuals fails to fully capture the complexities of online community research. To support advancing ethical online community research, we propose a one-day hybrid workshop centered around tensions and challenges in adopting best practices for ethical online community research. This workshop aims to bring together online community researchers to 1) recognize existing approaches for ethical online community research, 2) expose gaps in current practices, and 3) prioritize directions to reconcile these ethical challenges.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2220509
- PAR ID:
- 10657573
- Publisher / Repository:
- ACM
- Date Published:
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 106 to 111
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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