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Crowdsourcing Gender Diversity
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MIT Media Lab
civic.mit.edu/users/natematias
@natematias
natematias.com
Images by Lance Weisser, Fabio Grande, Ann Fandrey from The Noun Project
research a system of power thatis assumed to be the norm
design approach
co-design alternative (imperfect)data lenses to observe & critique
with data & software, support cooperationto address & change those structures
Images by Simon Child, Lance Weisser, Luis Prado, Dillon Arloff, from The Noun Project
publishers
The Public
Powerful People & Ins4tu4ons
Advocacy
Transparency
4[Jurney, Dorothy Misener (1909-2002), Papers, 1920-1992 (C3904), The State Historical Society of Missouri, Manuscript Collection-Columbia]
Source: “Who Makes the News?” Global Media Monitoring Project
Images by Simon Child, Lance Weisser, Luis Prado, Dillon Arloff, from The Noun Project
algorithms
ci0zen media
biases
the crowd
publishers
@objectgroup@natema0as
http://natematias.com/medialab/uknews-gender/
@objectgroup@natema0as
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Content Social
Guardian Opinion
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Content Social
women both men
Telegraph Opinion
http://natematias.com/medialab/uknews-gender/
http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2012/08/did-global-voices-use-diverse-sources-on-twitter-for-arab-spring-coverage228/
Who’s Quoted and Mentioned
http://natematias.com/medialab/gv-viewer/
@natema0as
@ireneros@natema0as Adam Hyland
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/mar/08/data-gender-global-voices
@natema'as) @dearsarah)
Social Media
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The Crowd
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
WomenMen
New York Times Obituaries
Wikipedia Biographies
Replicating “Who Narrates the World” with MediaCloud Pilot Analysis for the Op Ed Project (do not quote)
J. Nathan Matias, Pamela Mishkin, Heather Craig, Sands Fish, David Larochelle, Whitney Erin Boesel, Ali Hashmi
DRAFT: NOT PUBLIC
Tools
@natema0as@ireneros Adam Hyland Bocoup
Open Gender Tracker Interac0ve API Explorer (montage of interface elements, ar1cles men1oning Beer, Boston Globe, Jan -‐ March 2013)
@malev
@jeremybmerrill
MIT Media Lab
text Gender Analysis APIhttps://github.com/OpenGenderTracking/
Author
Content Overview
Mentioned / Quoted
GET /gender?name = Dan Sinker
POST /content $text = <TEXT>
POST /mentioned $text = <TEXT>
@gaba@natematias
Adrienne LaFrance
5%10%
85%
malefemaleunknown
Content Gender
Accept
@natema0as
GenderData4Change
@willowbl00
@natema0as
DRAFT: DO NOT QUOTE
Images by Lance Weisser, Fabio Grande, Ann Fandrey from The Noun Project
MIT Media Lab
civic.mit.edu/users/natematias
@natematias
natematias.com
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