Noticing the other gender on Google+. WebSci '14; Bloomington, Indiana, USA - June 23-26, 2014

Author(s):
Las Casas, D.; Magno, G.; Landulfo Teixeira P. Cunha, E.; Gonçalves, M.A.; Cambraia, C.; Almeida, V.
Published
2014
Publication type
Article in monograph or in proceedings

Abstract

Google+ provides a feature that has been overlooked in social media

studies: the possibility of users setting their gender information not

only as female or male, but as other instead.

In this paper, we discuss this particularity and, more broadly, the issue of non-binary gender roles in the Web. By analyzing a large dataset, we characterize some aspects of self presentation, word use, network information and country of residence among users who choose different alternatives in the field Gender. On the whole, our main contributions are to present preliminary results and to shed light into the topic considered here - namely, the implications of having a third gender option to present oneself in an online social networking service.

Date issued
2014
Language
English
Publisher
New York: ACM
Is part of
Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on Web Science (2014), p. 156-160
ISBN source
9781450326223
hdl
1887/61378
doi
10.1145/2615569.2615692
URL
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2615569.2615692

Conference

Meeting name
altmetrics14: expanding impacts and metrics An ACM Web Science Conference 2014 Altmetrics Workshop, 23-26 June, Indiana University, Indiana, USA
Meeting location
Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America
Meeting date
2014-06-23 - 2014-06-26