About The Author
The Author's Full Name of The Chapter's Discussed Today
Benjamin Hanckel
The Year BE was Launched
2015
Name one of the BE app’s features (tools) designed to provide factual info about sexuality and health.
Learn Tool or The Knowledge Base
Who is associated with the Social Theory of Habitus and Capitol?
Who is Pierre Bourdieau
The Original Name for BE
What is Project Happy :)
Hanckel’s work often applies this theoretical approach, emphasizing how design can enhance capabilities and opportunities for marginalized youth.
Sen’s Capability Approach
The Name of NGO that Launched BE
B-Change Foundation
Which BE feature allows peers to ask questions and receive answers from experienced community members?
Ask Tool or Question and Answer Feature
What are the Core Ideas of The Capability Approach?
Functioning's, Capabilities, and Freedom
This term refers to the fictional profiles created by BE to represent typical LGBT+ youth users
User Personas or The Imagined Users
Hanckel highlights that BE’s back-end and front-end design collectively aim to create these feelings in users, which are crucial for engagement.
Safety, Security, Privacy, and Trust
The year Hankel began observing the initiative during its conceptualization phase.
2014
This BE component provides a map of LGBT+ community and health services across Southeast Asia while carefully managing what information is visible to protect providers and users.
Find Tool/Services Map
What are ICTs?
Information and Communication Technologies
The “pain points” identified in formative research that included risks from families, peers, work colleagues, and the state.
Persistent Stigmas and Structural Barriers?
What can be Beneficial or Harmful When it Comes to the Circulation of Content?
Algorithm's
How Long was the ethnographic Study
3 Years
In BE, this function involved trained community managers providing guided, confidential support to users and referrals to services.
Helpdesk
What Type of Freedom Does the Capabilty Approach Address?
Substantivate Freedom
These intersectional factors, including access to technology, income, and social support, influenced which users could fully engage with BE.
Habitus and Capital
Where is The Author From
Australia
What Five Countries is The Research From?
Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, The Philippines
Where does the (trans) in (trans)national Come From?
Trans Identities
What Theory Focuses on Action Possibilities?
Affordance Theory
This sociological concept describes how LGBT+ youth move between online and offline spaces, challenging the idea of a “split” between digital and real-life experiences.
Augmented Subjectivity