This study examines how parents of LGBTQ+ individuals in South Korea navigate the emotional rupture fueled by fear, isolation, and disorientation after learning their children's queer identity, encounter queer-related (mis)information as a way of coping with this emotional toll, and come to listen to queer realities relationally. Through this process, we highlight how parents reconstruct their identities as supportive parents, which reshapes their informating practices, making them more critical in assessing queer-related (mis)information, developing strategies to protect themselves from harmful narratives, and actively challenging misinformation to support others navigating similar experiences. This work contributes to CSCW by (1) foregrounding parents of LGBTQ+ individuals, an underrepresented yet critical stakeholder group in Queer HCI; (2) demonstrating how identity reconfiguration following a trauma-healing process could transform information practices; and (3) arguing that addressing misinformation requires attention beyond individual fact-based discerning to account for its relational, cultural, and emotional dimensions. Further, we invite CSCW scholars to reconsider the balance between abstracting and humanizing information, explore future design possibilities for parents of LGBTQ+ children, and reflect on the role of researchers as participants in collective research communities fueled by care.
翻译:本研究考察了韩国LGBTQ+个体家长在得知子女的酷儿身份后,如何应对由恐惧、孤立和迷失感驱动的情绪断裂,如何通过接触与酷儿相关的(误)信息来应对这种情绪负担,并逐渐学会以关系性方式倾听酷儿现实。通过这一过程,我们揭示了家长如何重建自身作为支持型父母的认同,这种认同重构改变了他们的信息实践,使他们在评估酷儿相关(误)信息时更具批判性,制定策略以保护自己免受有害叙事的影响,并积极挑战错误信息以支持其他经历类似处境的人。本工作为CSCW领域做出以下贡献:(1)关注LGBTQ+个体家长这一在酷儿HCI中代表性不足但至关重要的利益相关群体;(2)论证创伤治愈过程中认同重构如何转变信息实践;(3)主张应对错误信息不能仅依赖个体的事实辨别能力,还需考虑其关系性、文化性和情感性维度。此外,我们邀请CSCW学者重新审视抽象化与人性化信息之间的平衡,探索面向LGBTQ+子女家长的未来设计可能,并反思研究者作为以关怀为纽带的集体研究社群参与者的角色。