Gender stereotypes in the mediated personalization of politics: Empirical evidence from a lexical, syntactic and sentiment analysis. (arXiv:2202.03083v2 [cs.CL] UPDATED)

The media attention to the personal sphere of famous and important
individuals has become a key element of the gender narrative. Here we combine
lexical, syntactic and sentiment analysis to investigate the role of gender in
the personalization of a wide range of political office holders in Italy during
the period 2017-2020. On the basis of a score for words that is introduced to
account for gender unbalance in both representative and news coverage, we show
that the political personalization …

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