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@article{SepahpourFard2022HowDM, title={How Do Mothers and Fathers Talk About Parenting to Different Audiences?: Stereotypes and Audience Effects: An Analysis of r/Daddit, r/Mommit, and r/Parenting Using Topic Modelling}, author={Melody Sepahpour-Fard and Michael Quayle}, journal={Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022}, year={2022}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:247158746}}
  • Melody Sepahpour-Fard, M. Quayle
  • Published in The Web Conference 25 February 2022
  • Sociology

While major strides have been made towards gender equality in public life, serious inequality remains in the domestic sphere, especially around parenting. The present study analyses discussions about parenting on Reddit (i.e., a content aggregation website) to explore audience effects and gender stereotypes. It suggests a novel method to study topical variation in individuals’ language when interacting with different audiences. Comments posted in 2020 were collected from three parenting…

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