A New Study Has Found That Male Twitter Users Are Biased Towards Their Female Counterparts As Conversations Among Men On The Microblogging Site Feature Fewer Mentions Of Women.
An algorithm was used by the researchers to apply the Bechdel test to real-life conversations via Twitter and to relate these to the gender bias of movies. The Bechdel Test was developed in 1985 by US cartoonist Alison Bechdel and it is used to see whether a movie features a minimum of female independence.
Twitter users from the US were selected by the researchers and the users were those who shared the link to a movie trailer on YouTube over the course of six days in June 2013. They also analyzed the users who interacted with them over a longer period of time. Around 300 million tweets were given the form of a gigantic movie script with 170,000 characters by the researchers and then analyzed by them.
The analysis showed that Twitter conversations among men featured fewer mentions of women, while there were more conversations between female Twitter users that have references to men than conversations without a male reference. The researchers said that a male bias was however not found in all Twitter users.
"I expected that on Twitter men would mention women in their conversations as often as women mentioned men," said David Garcia, researcher at the Chair of Systems Design at ETH Zurich.
Twitter users from the US were selected by the researchers and the users were those who shared the link to a movie trailer on YouTube over the course of six days in June 2013. They also analyzed the users who interacted with them over a longer period of time. Around 300 million tweets were given the form of a gigantic movie script with 170,000 characters by the researchers and then analyzed by them.
The analysis showed that Twitter conversations among men featured fewer mentions of women, while there were more conversations between female Twitter users that have references to men than conversations without a male reference. The researchers said that a male bias was however not found in all Twitter users.
"I expected that on Twitter men would mention women in their conversations as often as women mentioned men," said David Garcia, researcher at the Chair of Systems Design at ETH Zurich.
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