Gender inequalities in political participation a study of the 2017 UK general elections on Twitter.

Abstract

we analyze a dataset of 4.5 million tweets related to the UK general elections of 2017 to investigate the gender composition of the different (political) communities, and to investigate gender inequalities in relation to online polarization.

Date
Nov 17, 2017 3:00 PM — 3:00 PM
Event
European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science
Location
London
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Matteo Manca
Data Scientist

My main activities are related to the analysis of digital trace data and to the application of computation methods to study social phenomena.