Anti-Sexism Alert System: Identification of Sexist Comments on Social Media Using AI Techniques
Autor/in:
Díaz Redondo, Rebeca P. Díaz; Fernández Vilas, Ana Fernández; Ramos Merino, Mateo Ramos; Valladares Rodríguez, Sonia María Valladares; Torres Guijarro, Soledad Torres; Hafez, Manar Mohamed
Quelle: Applied Sciences, 13 (2023) 7, 4341 S
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Inhalt: Social relationships in the digital sphere are becoming more usual and frequent, and they constitute a very important aspect for all of us. Violent interactions in this sphere are very frequent, and have serious effects on the victims. Within this global scenario, there is one kind of digital violence that is becoming really worrying: sexism against women. Sexist comments that are publicly posted in social media (newspaper comments, social networks, etc.), usually obtain a lot of attention and become viral, with consequent damage to the persons involved. In this paper, we introduce an anti-sexism alert system, based on natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI), that analyzes any public post, and decides if it could be considered a sexist comment or not. Additionally, this system also works on analyzing all the public comments linked to any multimedia content (piece of news, video, tweet, etc.) and decides, using a color-based system similar to traffic lights, if there is sexism in the global set of posts. We have created a labeled data set in Spanish, since the majority of studies focus on English, to train our system, which offers a very good performance after the validation experiments.
Schlagwörter:artificial intelligence; Big Data; method; prevention; sexism; Social Media; violence against women
CEWS Kategorie:Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Individual experiences and observation of gender-based violence in academia. Executive summary of the analysis of interviews with researchers at higher risk to gender-based violence
Autor/in:
Blazyte, Giedre; Pilinkaite Sotirovic, Vilana
Quelle: Zenodo, 2023.
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Inhalt: This report provides a summary of the analysis of qualitative research data collected from 54 individual interviewees about the experiences and/or witnessing of gender-based violence in academia and their impact on individuals and research organisations.
Schlagwörter:academia; Interview; victim; violence
CEWS Kategorie:Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Monographie
10 action towards LGBTQIA+ equality in research centres and STEM environments : Implementation Guide
Autor/in:
Villafranca, Aitor; Ortiz, Gloria P.
Quelle: PRISMA; Barcelona, 2023.
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Inhalt: The PRISMA guide has been developed to implement the 10 PRISMA measures that favor LGTBQIA+ equality and diversity in research centers and in science, technology and innovation environments.
Schlagwörter:Diversity; equality; equality measure; Innovation; LGBTQ+; research performing organisation; technology
CEWS Kategorie:Außerhochschulische Forschung, Diversity, Hochschulen, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht
Managerial Discourse as Neutralizer? The Influence of the Concealment of Social Categories on the Experience of Workplace Bullying in Research Organizations
Autor/in:
Vandevelde-Rougale, Agnès; Morales, Patricia Guerrero
Quelle: Diversity and Discrimination in Research. Jörg Müller (Hrsg.), Clemens Striebing (Hrsg.), Martina Schraudner (Hrsg.), Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited. 2023, S 331–364
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Inhalt: This chapter looks at the discursive dimension of the working environment in research and higher education organizations; more specifically at neoliberal managerial discourse and at how it participates in shaping the way researchers, teachers and support staff perceive themselves and their experiences. It is based on a multiple case study and combines an intersectional and a socio-clinical approach. The empirical data is constituted by in-depth interviews with women conducted in Ireland and Chile, and includes some observations made in France. A thematic analysis of individual narratives of self-ascribed experiences of being bullied enables to look behind the veil drawn by managerial discourse, thus providing insights into power vectors and power domains contributing to workplace violence. It also shows that workplace bullying may reinforce identification to undervalued social categories. This contribution argues that neoliberal managerial discourse, by encouraging social representations of “neutral” individuals at work, or else celebrating their “diversity,” conceals power relations rooting on different social categories. This process influences one’s perception of one’s experience and its verbalization. At the same time, feeling assigned to one or more of undervalued social category can raise the perception of being bullied or discriminated against. While research has shown that only a minority of incidents of bullying and discrimination are reported within organizations, this contribution suggests that acknowledging the multiplicity and superposition of categories and their influence in shaping power relations could help secure a more collective and caring approach, and thus foster a safer work culture and atmosphere in research organizations.
Schlagwörter:academia; Arbeitsplatz; bullying; Care; GBV; harassment; intersectional; Organisation; power; Subjektivierung; violence; workplace culture
CEWS Kategorie:Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerksbeitrag
Race, Gender, and Violence - Introduction to Special Issue
Autor/in:
Banerjee, Pallavi; Hwang, Maria Cecilia
Quelle: gend soc (Gender & Society), 37 (2023) 3, S 345–360
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Inhalt: In this introduction to the Special Issue on Gender, Race and Violence, we go back to the roots of intersectionality and foreground an intersectional lens in our examination of violence against women and non-binary people of color. We argue that it is important to address the persistent “epistemic violence” resultant from silencing the most marginal, by featuring works that call attention to and examine violence against groups subjected to the “interlocking oppressions” of race, class, gender, and sexuality. The articles in the Special Issue re-directs the sociological analysis of violence to foreground scholarship that engages in the gendered and racial appraisal of violence. Studies included in the issue also foreground sexuality, which has largely been neglected in the intersectional analysis of violence. In so doing, we nod to both the past and the future of intersectionality in studies of violence.
Schlagwörter:class; intersectionality; race; sexuality
CEWS Kategorie:Diversity, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Why do some followers remain silent in response to abusive supervision? A system justification perspective
Autor/in:
Metin Camgoz, Selin; Bayhan Karapinar, Pinar; Tayfur Ekmekci, Ozge; Metin Orta, Irem; Özbilgin, Mustafa
Quelle: European Management Journal, (2023)
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Inhalt: This study investigates how the system justification motive manifests in employees’ voice/silence behavior at the workplace. It also explores the moderating effects of system justification on the linkage between abusive supervision and voice/silence behavior for blue- and white-collar employees. The field study generated responses from 905 employees in Turkey. Multi-group analysis reveals that the moderating effect of system justification motives varies by occupational class. In particular, the impact of abusive supervision on silence becomes more salient when white-collar employees endorse higher system justification motives. However, in the blue-collar sample, the absence of a moderating effect could be attributed to the strong main effect of system justification motives. The current study adds to the extant literature by applying a system justification perspective to voice and silence behavior by collar differences at work. It also provides important implications for managers in dealing with workplace mistreatment affecting all occupational groups, mainly when blue-collar employee silence is endemic and regulatory policies are inadequate.
Schlagwörter:abuse; behavior; class; class work; Employee; leadership; occupation; silencing; Supervision; System justification theory; voicing
CEWS Kategorie:Netzwerke und Organisationen, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
The politics of naming and construction: university policies on gender-based violence in the UK
Autor/in:
Anitha, Sundari; Jordan, Ana; Chanamuto, Nicola
Quelle: Gender & Education, (2023) , S 1–18
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Inhalt: The problematisation of a social phenomenon is a political process that both constructs the problem and, in doing so, suggests possible remedies and occludes others. Based on the first-ever comprehensive analysis of 129 UK university policies to address Gender-based violence (GBV), we examine how the ‘problem' of GBV is conceptualised in institutional policies. We explore three interconnected themes: the nature of the ‘problem’ that is constituted, analysing whether GBV is explicitly acknowledged and constructed narrowly or broadly; the place of gender and its intersection with other social relations of power in this problematisation; and the implicit ways in which GBV is constructed as an individual or a social problem. We also examine the implications of such constructions for imagining possible responses to GBV. In doing so, this article contributes to academic debates on the conceptualisation of GBV, while offering original insights into how such conceptualisations are materialised within institutional policy and regulatory frameworks.
Schlagwörter:discourse; gender based violence; higher education; institutional practices; intersectional; policy analysis; Sexual harassment in universities and colleges; sexual harassment policy; sexual violence; UK; university
CEWS Kategorie:Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Sexism in academia is bad for science and a waste of public funding
Autor/in:
Boivin, Nicole; Täuber, Susanne; Beisiegel, Ulrike; Keller, Ursula; Hering, Janet G.
Quelle: Nat Rev Mater (Nature Reviews Materials), (2023)
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Inhalt: Higher education and research institutions are critical to the well-being and success of societies, meaning their financial support is strongly in the public interest. At the same time, value-for-money principles demand that such investment delivers. Unfortunately, these principles are currently violated by one of the biggest sources of public funding inefficiency: sexism.
Schlagwörter:academia; career; gender inequality; hostility; leaky pipeline; organizational climate; science; sexism; workplace
CEWS Kategorie:Wissenschaft als Beruf, Geschlechterverhältnis, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
University housing reinforces the negative relationship between interpersonal violence, psychological distress, and suicidality in undergraduates, particularly among gender diverse students
Autor/in:
Heller, Abigail T.; Berg, Sergey S.; Prichard, J. Roxanne
Quelle: Journal of American College Health, 71 (2023) 1, S 102–110
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Inhalt: OBJECTIVE
To compare academic and mental health outcomes across diverse gender identities in the context of interpersonal violence and campus housing.
PARTICIPANTS
45,549 students from 124 self-selected post-secondary institutions.
METHODS
Various academic and health measures from the National College Health Assessment Spring 2017 dataset were analyzed for differences across five gender identities (cis women, cis men, transwomen, transmen, and genderqueer students), and two housing categories (university housing and non-university housing).
RESULTS
When compared to cisgender peers, gender diverse students reported greater experiences of interpersonal violence and higher levels of negative academic and mental health outcomes. Living in university housing was associated with an increase in these disparities.
CONCLUSIONS
University housing, which usually reinforces fixed gender binaries, is associated with worse outcomes for gender diverse students. These data can help higher education institutions better understand and address problems that disproportionately impact transgender and gender diverse students, who represent a growing demographic.
Schlagwörter:campus; gender identity; gender-based violence; higher education; mental health; queer; Transgeschlechtlichkeit
CEWS Kategorie:Diversity, Hochschulen, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz
The persistence of sexism and racism at universities - Dissertation
Autor/in:
Guschke, Bontu Lucie
Quelle: (PhD series / Copenhagen Business School, 6), 2023, First edition. 378 S
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Inhalt: This PhD dissertation investigates the reproduction of sexist and racist harassment and
discrimination in workplaces at Danish universities. It contributes to feminist organization
studies by exploring: (1) How does the dis/organization of Danish universities enable the
reproduction of inequalities, specifically in form of sexist and racist harassment and
discrimination? (2) What allows sexist and racist workplace harassment and discrimination to be
reproduced both on an institutional-structural and an interactional-individual level? (3) How are
sexist and racist harassment and discrimination reproduced intersectionally, and what is distinct
in how they are reproduced?
Data from the Danish university context provides the empirical basis for the study. The author
conducted in-depth interviews with academic faculty at all eight Danish universities. Interviewees
were not required to have personal experiences with harassment and discrimination. An
approach of anti-narrative research operationalized through embodied queer listening was
developed and used in both data generation and analysis to methodologically acknowledge and
engage with the interviewees’ vulnerabilities as well as autonomy in relation to organizational
norms and power structures. It further allowed engaging with both discursive and affective
aspects of data generation and analysis.
The findings of the study are structured in six analytical chapters. These outline (I) contextual
mechanisms within the Danish academic system that facilitate harassment and discrimination,
(II) the unspeakability of racism when speaking of harassment and discrimination, (III) the
imperceptibility of harassment, that is, how harassment often becomes affectively noticed before
becoming named as such, (IV) ten (de)legitimization strategies that allow harassment and
discrimination to persist, (V) expectations in how to speak up about harassment experiences, and
finally (VI) insights on the reporting process and its challenges.
Schlagwörter:academia; Denmark; discrimination; harassment; intersectional; race discrimination; sexism
CEWS Kategorie:Diversity, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Hochschulschrift