Changing Gender Relations in Media as Social Development

Changing Gender Relations in the Household

One of the most important institutions in the lives of poor people is the household. Poverty interventions directly or indirectly affect and are affected by the household and gender relations, and hence the importance of exploring intra-household gender dynamics. The household is a basic unit of society where individuals both cooperate and compete for resources. It is also a primary place where...

Changing Gender Stereotypes in Iran

Abstract In recent decades, because of the vast socio-cultural changes which occurred in Iran, Iranian women have experienced new values and identities and they have achieved more advanced education and consciousness, so that they oppose the gender stereotypes which attribute inferior characteristics to women and cause inequalities and limitations in their everyday life. Although gender stereo...

Gender Prediction in Social Media

In this paper, we explore the task of gender classification using limited network data with an application to Fotolog. We take a heuristic approach to automating gender inference based on username, followers and network structure. We test our approach on a subset of 100,000 nodes and analyze our results to find that there is a lot of value in these limited information and that there is great pr...

analyzing power relations in political tv interviews in english mass media

چکیده زبان سیستم کاملی ازقوانین است که برای ایجاد ارتباط و تبادل معانی مورد استفاده قرار می گیرد که در رابطه تنگاتنگ با روابط قدرتی افراد می باشد. این رابطه و قدرت افراد می تواند مستقیما در انتخاب ضمایر و سایر ساختارهای زبانی حتی در رفتار افراد تاثیرگذار باشد. در هرجامعه ای ، تقریبا نوعی روابط قدرتی درمیان افراد موجود می باشد و این رابطه درنحوه ی استفاده ی آنها در زبان منعکس می شود. بررسی ای...

Measuring international relations in social media conversations