Normalizing and Gendering Affects

Gendering the Job:

Gender segregation of jobs plays a central role in current research on gender and labor markets, and understanding the mechanisms driving the gender segregation has become a key focus of study. While the literature on gender segregation of jobs often invoke gender sorting mechanisms that operate pre-hire, the data that are used to empirically examine these processes are almost always collected ...

Gendering Socialist Popular Cultures

Gendering the Internet

j In this article the mutual shaping of the Internet and gender is analysed. Common claims that the Internet constitutes a masculine or contrarily a feminine environment are critically discussed, as well as the cyberfeminist contention that the Internet enables new identities not limited by gender. It is argued instead that gender and the Internet are multidimensional concepts that are articula...

Re-gendering Data: Quantifying Qualitative

Processing and Normalizing Hashtags

We present ongoing work in linguistic processing of hashtags in Twitter text, with the goal of supplying normalized hashtag content to be used in more complex natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Hashtags represent collectively shared topic designators with considerable surface variation that can hamper semantic interpretation. Our normalization scripts allow for the lexical consolidation a...