Despite decades of anti-caste efforts, sociocultural practices that marginalize lower-caste groups in India remain resilient and have even proliferated with the use of social media. This paper examines how groups engaged in caste-based discrimination leverage platform affordances of the social media site X (formerly Twitter) to circulate and reinforce caste ideologies. Our analysis builds upon previous HCI conceptualizations of online harms and safety to inform how to address caste-based othering. We offer theoretical and methodological suggestions for critical HCI research focused on studying the mechanisms of power along other social categories.

翻译：尽管经历了数十年的反种姓制度努力，印度社会中边缘化低种姓群体的社会文化实践依然表现出强大韧性，甚至随着社交媒体的使用而扩散。本文研究了从事种姓歧视的群体如何利用社交媒体平台X（原Twitter）的平台可供性来传播和强化种姓意识形态。我们的分析建立在先前人机交互领域对网络伤害与安全的概念化研究基础上，为如何应对基于种姓的他者化问题提供见解。我们为关注其他社会类别权力机制的批判性人机交互研究提供了理论与方法论建议。