Workshop on Protecting Women Online

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Towards a Safer Web for Women: First International Workshop on Protecting Women Online at the Web Conference 2025

Schedule

Time Session Details
9:00 - 9:10 Workshop Opening Workshop Opening
9:10 - 10:30 The problem session
  • 9:10 - 10:00: Olga Jurasz Keynote – Women in online spaces: violence, tech bros and why law (alone) is never enough
  • 10:00 - 10:30: Papers presentations:
    • 10:00 - 10:15: Perspectives from Ireland: The Psychological Harms of Cyber-located Sexual Violence
    • 10:15 - 10:30: Legal and Ethical Challenges of Femtech: Protecting Women’s Data & Rights in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 12:30 How can we help and challenges session part I
  • 11:00 - 11:30: Papers presentations:
    • 11:00 - 11:15: United We Stand: A Call for Diverse Design Teams to Prevent Technology Facilitated Gender-Based Violence
    • 11:15 - 11:30: Inclusive and Accessible Bystander Interventions for Technology Facilitated Sexual Violence
  • 11:30 - 12:30: Helen Atkins Keynote – Scaling AI from the Jamaican grassroots using decolonial feminist praxis for violence prevention
12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH BREAK
13:30 - 15:00 How can we help session and challenges session part II
  • 13:30 - 14:15: Discussion session – Challenges we are facing: Why haven't we solved the problem yet?
  • 14:15 - 15:00: Maria Nguyen Keynote – Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence: An Australian Perspective
15:00 - 15:30 COFFEE BREAK
15:30 - 17:00 Mitigation / How tech can help session
  • 15:30 - 16:00: Paper presentations:
    • 15:30 - 15:45: AI Ally: Co-Designing Anti-Harassment AI with Girls, Young Women and Gender-Diverse Individuals
    • 15:45 - 16:00: Intersectional Hatred – An Application of Large Language Models to Detect Hate and Offensive Speech Targeted at Congressional Candidates in the 2024 U.S. Election
  • 16:00 - 16:50: Discussion session – Facing the challenges: Which are the next steps?
16:50 - 17:00 Closing remarks Closing remarks