cs.CY · 2026-06-09 · No. 18

Computers and Society, 2026-06-09.

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01 — The papers

2 entries
  1. 01

    I Was Scrolling and Then I Saw a Pregnant Strawberry

    Piera Riccio

    cs.CY · cs.AI

    AI minidramas (also known as fruit dramas) are short, algorithmically distributed generative AI video series featuring anthropomorphized characters that have recently emerged as a widespread phenomenon on social media platforms. This paper argues that despite their seemingly innocuous aesthetic, these videos reproduce deeply gendered narrative structures in which female characters are systematically associated with moral transgression, sexual...

    arxiv.org/abs/2606.09589 · PDF

  2. 02

    Can Data Work be Reparative?

    Srravya Chandhiramowuli, Ding Wang, Alex Taylor

    cs.CY · cs.AI · cs.HC

    We present an ethnographic study of an alternative approach to data work, developed by a civic-tech initiative that builds datasets for training and benchmarking online safety systems. They aim to respond to online safety concerns from a feminist perspective, by building safety datasets collaboratively with those most impacted by online harms. In this paper, we examine how this approach aims to reorient data work as a site for repair and...

    arxiv.org/abs/2606.09408 · PDF

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