Gender roles, perspectives, and issue attention in the Italian political twitterverse. An analysis of politicians’ network and top-down communication
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12971967 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Silvia Decadri (0000-0003-0378-1183, Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author), Fedra Negri (0000-0003-4906-2707, Twitter (United States)) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 528-546 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Information Technology & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1933-169X • E-ISSN: 1933-1681 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19331681.2024.2312883 |
| OpenAlex | W4391968995 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 43 |
We investigate gender disparities in politics through an exploration of the Italian political Twitterverse. Using network analysis and structural topic models on a novel dataset of Italian politicians’ tweets (January 2020 - February 2022), we find that women are as well-connected to their political peers and as active as their male colleagues, and tweet on a wide range of topics emphasizing the sub-issues they care the most. These findings indicate that, as for women’s positioning within the politicians’ network, their activism and issue attention, Twitter seems to be a more favorable environment than more conventional arenas, where numeric under-representation, appointment to marginal positions, and gender gaps in issue attention are still detectable
Demographic economics · Gender gap · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Representation (politics · Sociology · Computational and Text Analysis Methods · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Law · Media Influence and Politics
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| Highly cited | No |