Gendered-Interaction-Online

Katie's term project. Will examine the interaction between different genders in online postings from various social media websites.

Project Info

Title: Gendered Interaction Online
By: Katie Thomas ([email protected])
Date: 4/26/19

Brief Project Summary

How do people communicate with each other? How much does gender affect the way we present ourselves online? There are many stereotypes about male vs. female, and this can manifest in how we interact. In this project, I will examine the interaction between different genders in online postings from a sociolinguistics point of view. The data set comes from a study at Stanford University here, but will be modified by me to fit the needs of the project as I progress.

Directory

• License: license for my project
• Project plan: more in depth description of my initial goals
• Progress report: markers of my progress throughout the term
• Code: listed below are my Jupyter Notebook files, with links to both the Github version and the nbviewer rendered version.
  • exploring_dataset.ipynb: exploring the files
    • nbviewer version
  • modifying_dataset.ipynb: modifying files and merging together for my purposes
    • nbviewer version
  • main_analysis.ipynb: conducting basic analysis, linguistic analysis, and gender analysis
    • nbviewer version
  • machine_learning.ipynb: classifying gender of poster and/or responder
    • nbviewer version
  • genderxgender.ipynb: a quick analysis of more specific words that different genders may or may not use
    • nbviewer version
• images: folder containing .png files from my Notebook files
• Final report: in depth discussion of the project process, as well as any conclusions and findings

Guestbook

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