Hi all,
A friendly reminder that the Wikimedia Research Showcase on Gender and
Equity will be this Wednesday!
We hope that some of you can join the livestream.
Best,
On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 4:36 PM Emily Lescak <elescak(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi all,
The next Research Showcase, focused on Gender and Equity on Wikipedia,
will be live-streamed Wednesday, March 15, at 9:30 AM PST / 16:30 UTC. Find
your local time here <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1678897840>.
YouTube stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw4MzJgDIzo
You can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You can also
watch our past research showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
This month's presentations:
Men Are elected, women are marriedː events gender bias on Wikipedia
By *Jiao Sun, University of Southern California*Human activities can be
seen as sequences of events, which are crucial to understanding societies.
Disproportional event distribution for different demographic groups can
manifest and amplify social stereotypes, and potentially jeopardize the
ability of members in some groups to pursue certain goals. In this paper,
we present the first event-centric study of gender biases in a Wikipedia
corpus. To facilitate the study, we curate a corpus of career and personal
life descriptions with demographic information consisting of 7,854
fragments from 10,412 celebrities. Then we detect events with a
state-of-the-art event detection model, calibrate the results using
strategically generated templates, and extract events that have asymmetric
associations with genders. Our study discovers that the Wikipedia pages
tend to intermingle personal life events with professional events for
females but not for males, which calls for the awareness of the Wikipedia
community to formalize guidelines and train the editors to mind the
implicit biases that contributors carry. Our work also lays the foundation
for future works on quantifying and discovering event biases at the corpus
level.
- Paperː Sun, J. & Peng, N. (2021). Men Are Elected, Women Are
Married: Events Gender Bias on Wikipedia. Proceedings of the 59th Annual
Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th
International Conference on Natural Language Processing, 350-360.
<https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-short.45.pdf>
Twitter reacts to absence of women on Wikipediaː a mixed-methods analysis
of #VisibleWikiWomen campaignBy *Sneh Gupta, Guru Gobind Singh
Indraprastha University*Digital gender divide (DGD) is visible in access,
participation, representation, and biases against women embedded in
Wikipedia, the largest digital reservoir of co-created content. This
article examined the content of #VisibleWikiWomen, a global digital
advocacy campaign aimed at encouraging inclusion of women voices in the
global technology conversation and improving digital sustainability of
feminist data on Wikipedia. In a mixed-methods study, Sentiment Analysis
followed by a Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of the campaign tweets
reveals how digital gender divide manifested in the public response. An
overwhelming majority of tweets expressed positive sentiment towards the
objective of the campaign. An inductive reading of the coded tweets (n =
1067) generated five themes: Feminist Activism, Invisibility &
Marginalization of Women, Technology for Women Empowerment, Gendered
Knowledge Inequity, and Power Dynamics in the Digital Sphere. Twitter
discourse presented many agitated digital users calling out the epistemic
injustice on Wikipedia that goes beyond the invisibility of women. Their
tweets reveal that they want an equal social platform inclusive of women of
color and varied identities currently absent in the Wikipedia universe.
Extracting ideas, values, and themes from new media campaigns holds
unparalleled potential in the diffusion of interventions and messages on a
larger scale.
- Paperː Gupta, S., & Trehan, K. (2022). Twitter reacts to absence of
women on Wikipedia: a mixed-methods analysis of #VisibleWikiWomen campaign.
Media Asia, 49(2), 130-154.
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356909618_Twitter_reacts_to_absence_of_women_on_Wikipedia_a_mixed-methods_analysis_of_VisibleWikiWomen_campaign>
Warm regards,
Emily
--
Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
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