Despite significant research on online harm, polarization, public deliberation, and justice, CSCW still lacks a comprehensive understanding of the experiences of religious minorities, particularly in relation to fear, as prominently evident in our study. Gaining faith-sensitive insights into the expression, participation, and inter-religious interactions on social media can contribute to CSCW's literature on online safety and interfaith communication. In pursuit of this goal, we conducted a six-month-long, interview-based study with the Hindu, Buddhist, and Indigenous communities in Bangladesh. Our study draws on an extensive body of research encompassing the spiral of silence, the cultural politics of fear, and communication accommodation to examine how social media use by religious minorities is influenced by fear, which is associated with social conformity, misinformation, stigma, stereotypes, and South Asian postcolonial memory. Moreover, we engage with scholarly perspectives from religious studies, justice, and South Asian violence and offer important critical insights and design lessons for the CSCW literature on public deliberation, justice, and interfaith communication.

翻译：尽管已有大量关于网络伤害、极化、公共审议与正义的研究，但CSCW领域仍缺乏对宗教少数群体体验的全面理解，尤其是在恐惧方面——这一点在我们的研究中尤为显著。从信仰敏感的视角洞察社交媒体上的表达、参与及跨宗教互动，能够为CSCW领域关于网络安全与跨信仰交流的文献做出贡献。为此，我们对孟加拉国的印度教、佛教及原住民社群开展了为期六个月的访谈研究。本研究借鉴了涵盖沉默螺旋、恐惧的文化政治及沟通调适理论的大量研究，以考察宗教少数群体的社交媒体使用如何受到恐惧的影响——这种恐惧与社会从众、错误信息、污名化、刻板印象及南亚后殖民记忆相关联。此外，我们结合了宗教学、正义理论及南亚暴力研究等学术视角，为CSCW领域关于公共审议、正义及跨信仰交流的文献提供了重要的批判性见解与设计启示。