More conscientious posts, reduced misconceptions of people unlike themselves
Untested
Emergent
Evoke User's Visibility
This counts, and relays back to the user, the number of distinct users who have seen a post or comment that user has made.
Different methodologies to count views could be used by different platforms, so long as they are consistent within the platform.
This view meter must be clear and distinct from other social metrics relayed back to users, such as the number of upvotes/likes, shares/retweets, &c.
This metric will be visible on social content, whenever a comment or post displays how many likes, reacts, or shares it has.
According to researchers from the Facebook study: "Users have scarce information about who actually sees their content, making their audience seem invisible and difficult to estimate." this can lead to over-disclosure and a lack of self-censorship.
A grade of Emergent is often given to interventions for whom the majority of research is qualitative.
Alternatively, if research exists, but the methodology is not publicly available, the Prosocial Design Network will also assign it an Emergent grade.
This grade denotes that the idea could have merit, but no quantitative research exists to explain why or how.
Michael Bernstein, Eytan Bakshy, Moira Burke, Brian Karrer
April 27, 2013
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ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
Research Article or Manuscript
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