Autistic Adults Online: Understanding and Enabling Autistic Sociality in Digital Networking Environments, 2020-2023

The proposed study aimed to provide a systematic linguistic and ethnographic analysis of how social networking sites (SNS) were used by autistic adults for social interaction. The overall objective of the study was to investigate how the opportunities for interaction and relationship building, as well as digital surveillance, on SNS, were shaping the experiences of autistic users. Furthermore, the study aimed to explore how understanding communicative practices within their social and technological contexts could contribute to the design of autism-friendly SNS environments. The collection consists of 27 interview transcripts, 1 information sheet that was distributed to participants at the start of the study, 1 interview consent form that was distributed prior to the interviews, 2 Interview Questions Guide which contains the interview questions that were asked (though note these were semi-structured interviews and not all questions will have been asked in every interview) and this user guide. The interviews were transcribed by a transcription service called TranscribeIt and the date of transcription is available on the opening page of each interview.

本研究旨在针对自闭症成年群体借助社交网站（Social Networking Sites, SNS）开展社交互动的方式，开展系统性语言学与民族志分析。本研究的总体目标为探究社交网站所提供的互动与关系构建机遇，以及数字监控机制，究竟如何形塑自闭症用户的使用体验。此外，本研究旨在探索：在社交与技术语境下理解自闭症群体的交际实践，能否为适配自闭症群体的社交网站环境设计提供支撑。本次采集的数据集包含27份访谈转录文本、1份研究启动阶段向参与者分发的研究知情告知书、1份访谈开展前发放的访谈知情同意书、2份访谈问题指南（注：本次访谈为半结构化访谈，并非每场访谈都会涵盖全部预设问题），以及本用户指南。访谈转录工作由名为TranscribeIt的转录服务机构完成，每份访谈的开篇页面均标注了转录日期。