Table 2 A high-level description (right) of potential interventions proposed by Hutson et al. (2018) to increase inter-racial relationships on online dating sites, and the nodes in our abstraction hierarchy that are associated with that intervention (left)
Relevant node | Proposed intervention |
|---|---|
Fairness constraint | Add a mechanism to the algorithm to promote more racial diversity in search results |
Community policies | Construct policies that restrict users from engaging in explicitly racist behaviors, e.g. listing racial preferences in their text profiles |
Community messaging | Target social norms on the platform by encouraging racially heterogomous dating and/or anti-racist behaviors |
Minimal group categories and filters | Assign users to randomly created social groups (“minimal groups” (Tajfel et al. 1971)) and encourage interaction amongst them by promoting them in user profiles and as filters for searching |
Race-based categories and filters | Remove the ability to filter by racial categories, and remove race information from user profiles |