Women@NCSA will be hosting a virtual meeting Wednesday, April 1 from 3:00-4:00 p.m. via Zoom open to all staff, affiliates, students, and friends of NCSA. Join the discussion and hear from iSchool Ph.D student, Ly Dinh on a talk entitled "Gendering the Ungendered: Examining Gender Biases in Hurricanes News Coverage."
Abstract: Hurricanes are ungendered phenomena that are ascribed with gendered names. We examined if people, in this case authors of news articles and individuals quoted in news, use gendered language when referring to hurricanes. This work helps identify if people use gender stereotyping when referring to gender-neutral entities, and what these stereotypes might be. We use methods from natural language processing, qualitative text analysis, and statistics to analyze how gender is expressed in disaster-related news from 1980 to 2012.
Join Zoom meeting: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/811338901
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This event is open to all staff, affiliates, students, and friends of NCSA.