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MARIASOPHIA FALCONE
Dottorando Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali
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Pubblicazioni
2023
- Exploring diversity and inclusion in Transport for London's Instagram
A corpus-assisted multimodal analysis of social actors
[Abstract in Atti di Convegno]
Iori, Ilaria; Falcone, Mariasophia
abstract
2020
- Analysing populist trends in the current U.S. political discourse: The case of person pro-forms
[Abstract in Atti di Convegno]
Falcone, Mariasophia
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2020
- Is Gender a Driver of Topic Choice? A Comparative Keyword
Analysis of Political Cable News Interviews
[Articolo su rivista]
Falcone, Mariasophia; Crawford Camiciottoli, Belinda
abstract
Cable news networks have become an increasingly important source of political news in the United States. They
wield considerable influence on public opinion, particularly in relation to current issues involving social roles
and gender dynamics. This study offers insights into how the choice of topic in political cable news interviews
may be influenced by the gender of participants. A corpus of 40 political cable news interviews was compiled
and analyzed on the basis of various combinations of male and female interviewers and interviewees. Corpus
software was implemented to extract keywords that were then grouped to identify prominent topics according to
gender. Topics discussed exclusively among male participants were more issue oriented (i.e., immigration,
healthcare, the economy, and gun control) as compared to those discussed exclusively among female participants
that were more in social nature (i.e., personal matters, the Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination, and tech
giants in the context of social justice). Results showed that topics emerging from the female participants’
discourse were aligned with some widely held perceptions of women’s speech. At the same time, other features
of the female participants’ speech appeared to be driven largely by their professional and institutional roles, and
thus, not aligned with stereotypical perceptions. The findings have implications for the role of media and cable
news in contemporary American society in avoiding the perpetration of gender-related topic bias