When LLMs Enter Everyday Feminism on Chinese Social Media: Opportunities and Risks for Women’s Empowerment

要旨

Everyday digital feminism refers to the ordinary, often pragmatic ways women articulate lived experiences and cultivate solidarity in online spaces. In China, such practices flourish on RedNote through discussions under hashtags like ''women's growth''. Recently, DeepSeek-generated content has been taken up as a new voice in these conversations. Given widely recognized gender biases in LLMs, this raises critical concerns about how LLMs interact with everyday feminist practices. Through an analysis of 430 RedNote posts, 139 shared DeepSeek responses, and 3211 comments, we found that users predominantly welcomed DeepSeek's advice. Yet feminist critical discourse analysis revealed that these responses primarily encouraged women to self-optimize and pursue achievements within prevailing norms rather than challenge them. By interpreting this case, we discuss the opportunities and risks that LLMs introduce for everyday feminism as a pathway toward women's empowerment, and offer design implications for leveraging LLMs to better support such practices.

著者
Runhua ZHANG
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China
Ziqi Pan
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Kangyu Yuan
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Qiaoyi Chen
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HongKong, China
Yulin Tian
Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Huamin Qu
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
Xiaojuan Ma
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

会議: CHI 2026

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

セッション: Technology, Safety and Justice

P1 - Room 112
7 件の発表
2026-04-16 18:00:00
2026-04-16 19:30:00