Despite greater knowledge about gender (in)equality issues, women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) are still largely portrayed in stereotypical ways in the media. We sought to uncover what both academic research and mainstream US and UK media communicate relative to the topic of women in STEM, in general, and women in computing, in particular. The notion of image cente...

The United States experienced a 25% unemployment rate in 1929 as result of the Great Depression. More than 5,000 banks announced closure, and more 80,000 businesses filed for bankruptcy direct Everyone was drowning woes being unemployed. However, Hollywood movies provided pastime people who were suffering every day during Although 1930s worst time U.S. economy, it golden age Hollywood. to late ...

International media have reported on the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS), an international terrorist organisation based in Syria since 2014. Women, often young unmarried, were leaving their homes families to sneak into join ISIS, according reports (Neumann, 2015). Sjoberg &Gentry (2011) assert that media's portrayal female terrorists factors encourage women support organisations no...

This paper describes key findings of a study exploring how a cohort of 16 rural Australian women aged over 60 years think, feel and respond to the prevalence of sexualised imagery in the media. The qualitative research framework was informed by Feminist Standpoint Theory. Participants in three focus groups responded to semi-structured questions and prompts, interspersed with viewing examples of...

Salma's novel, Manaamiyangal, is entirely about women. It constructed based on society's conception of a feminine energy that entangles itself in the structures time. resounds as voice women's disenfranchisement. Many people around world are praising glory Every woman society still living life crushed by daily needs and her freedom. Rituals, rituals, customs some societies keep women at boundar...

Abstract The problem of gender bias is highly prevalent and well known. In this paper, we have analysed the portrayal roles in English movies, a medium that effectively influences society shaping people’s beliefs opinions. First, gathered scripts films from different genres derived sentiments emotions using natural language processing techniques. Afterwards, converted into embeddings, i.e., way...

Performance analysis and estimations play a central role in the design and development of parallel application software. In parallel environments, the performance related parameter space is much larger than that in the sequential case. As a result, simple “paper and pencil” type analysis is not always a viable option. Numerous efforts have gone into developing tools to help users understand the...

How the news media cover cancer may have profound significance for cancer prevention and control; however, little is known about the actual content of cancer news coverage in Korea. This research thus aimed to examine news portrayal of specific cancer types with respect to threat and efficacy, and to investigate whether news portrayal corresponds to actual cancer statistics. A content analysis ...