It’s going to be okay: Measuring Access to Support in Online Communities (D18-1)
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| Challenge: | Despite substantial efforts to reduce gender disparities in online social contexts, gender gaps persist and negatively affect women through online harassment. |
| Approach: | They propose a new dataset and method for identifying supportive replies and new methods for inferring gender from text and name to examine the disparity in support across millions of online interactions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model shows that identifying as a woman is associated with higher rates of support, but also higher rates disparagement. |
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