Male dominance and sexism on YouTube: results of three content analyses

Döring, Nicola; Mohseni, Maryam

doi:10.1080/14680777.2018.1467945

Cited by 50 publications

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“…The applicability of the results to other groups of public figures appears to be feasible, as the focus on women identified here for journalists has also been observed for other groups (e.g. Astor, 2018; Döring and Mohseni, 2018; Eckert, 2018).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 56%

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Female journalists under attack? Explaining gender differences in reactions to audiences’ attacks

Stahel

Schoen

2019

New Media & Society

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The literature on public figures attacked by their audiences is unclear why female and male figures react differently to attacks. This study examines why female journalists are more likely than male journalists to use avoidance strategies as a reaction to online attacks. Avoidance includes limiting audience engagement, adapting reporting behavior, and thinking about quitting journalism. Drawing on social role theory and gender stereotypes, this study contrasts two explanatory hypotheses. The results, based on mediation analyses of online survey data of 637 journalists representative of Switzerland, show that women are more likely than men to use avoidance strategies because women are more stressed by attacks. This heightened stress is argued to result from differences in gender role socialization. In contrast, while women are somewhat more severely attacked than men, this cannot explain their greater probability of avoidance. Results contribute a theoretically and empirically rich explanation of gendered reactions to attacks.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 56%

“…online platforms, text message, etc.). Treating this variable as a control rather than as a mediator is justified by systematic reports that show gender-equal frequencies of attacks (Döring and Mohseni, 2018; Nilsson and Örnebring, 2016; Preuss et al, 2017).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Female journalists under attack? Explaining gender differences in reactions to audiences’ attacks

Stahel

Schoen

2019

New Media & Society

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“…From this analysis, despite the alleged tendency for comments to be negative in YouTube videos (e.g. [11]), in our case both positive and negative comments about Sophia emerged. The next section provides an analysis that enables us to evaluate overall what is the dominant sentiment expressed by users towards Sophia.…”

Section: Word Cloudcontrasting

confidence: 64%

The Rise of the Roboid

Fortunati

Sorrentino

Fiorini

et al. 2021

Int J of Soc Robotics

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The aim of this paper is to analyze a new phenomenon that is emerging in the field of social robotics, which we name as “roboid”. The roboid is a robot that is still at the prototype stage but claims to be fully functioning. We argue that the roboid has been created to handle a new phase between the prototyping and the commercialization of robots. In this intermediate phase, a wide-spread promotional campaign is organized by robot producers, with the purpose of understanding the desires, needs, and suggestions of potential customers. We present the first case of a a highly human-like roboid named Sophia. We carried out the visual analysis of the content and the content-agnostic factors of a selection of 15 videos uploaded on YouTube on the social robot Sophia and a qualitative analysis of the textual component of these videos to investigate a selected part of the promotional campaign on Sophia. Furthermore, on the 23,810 comments that users have posted on these videos, we applied quantitative analysis to explore the observers’ opinions about Sophia. Results highlight that: (1) a powerful but potentially ridiculous narrative has been used to build the rhetoric of Sophia; (2) the comments on the videos are too poor to enable a co-construction of this social robot with the audiences (implicit intention of Hanson Robotics); (3) the introduction of the roboid might be a very good solution to reduce the uncertainties that may occur when a new robot moves directly from the laboratory to the market.

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“…The power of the messages included in children's popular culture, including television, series or internet, which children and adolescents seem to consume increasingly despite reproducing evident forms of sexist messages and gender stereotypes, should also be considered when talking about environmental influences (Aubrey and Harrison, 2004;Döring and Mohseni, 2019).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%