论文标题
父母如何谈论对不同受众的育儿？：刻板印象和受众效果：使用主题建模对R/DADDIT，R/MOMMIT和R/育儿进行分析
How Do Mothers and Fathers Talk About Parenting to Different Audiences?: Stereotypes and Audience Effects: An Analysis of r/Daddit, r/Mommit, and r/Parenting Using Topic Modelling
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论文摘要
尽管在公共生活中的性别平等方面取得了重大进展，但在国内领域，尤其是在育儿周围，严重的不平等仍然存在。本研究分析了有关Reddit育儿的讨论，以探讨受众效果和性别刻板印象。它提出了一种与不同受众互动时研究个体语言局部变化的新方法。 2020年发布的评论是从三个育儿子记录中收集的，被描述为父亲（R/DADDIT），母亲（R/Mommit）和所有父母（R/育儿）。在R/parthing和R/Daddit或R/parthing和R/Mommit上发布的用户分别识别为父亲或母亲，从而可以比较。将用户对R/育儿的评论（对混合性别受众）与对R/DADDIT或使用LDA主题建模对单个性别受众或R/MOMMIT的评论进行了比较。结果表明，父母中讨论最多的话题是关于教育和家庭建议，这个主题主要在混合性别subreddit中讨论，而父亲比母亲更多。关于儿童的基本需求（睡眠，食物和医疗服务），无论听众如何，母亲似乎都更加关注。相比之下，以父亲为中心的Subreddit中的父亲更多地讨论了出生和怀孕公告和外表等主题。总体而言，发现似乎表明，母亲通常更关心育儿的实际方面，而父亲表示担忧的是：与其他父亲在一起，似乎有一种渴望展示父亲的父亲，并在与母亲讨论教育时得到认可。这些结果表明，父母对reddit表达的关注是上下文敏感的，但也与性别刻板印象一致，这可能反映出育儿中持续的性别和不平等的劳动分裂。
While major strides have been made towards gender equality in public life, serious inequality remains in the domestic sphere, especially around parenting. The present study analyses discussions about parenting on Reddit to explore audience effects and gender stereotypes. It suggests a novel method to study topical variation in individuals' language when interacting with different audiences. Comments posted in 2020 were collected from three parenting subreddits, described as being for fathers (r/Daddit), mothers (r/Mommit), and all parents (r/Parenting). Users posting on r/Parenting and r/Daddit or on r/Parenting and r/Mommit were assumed to identify as fathers or mothers, respectively, allowing gender comparison. Users' comments on r/Parenting (to a mixed-gender audience) were compared with their comments to single-gender audiences on r/Daddit or r/Mommit using LDA topic modelling. Results showed that the most discussed topic among parents is about education and family advice, a topic mainly discussed in the mixed-gender subreddit and more by fathers than mothers. Regarding the basic needs of children (sleep, food, and medical care), mothers seemed to be more concerned regardless of the audience. In contrast, topics such as birth and pregnancy announcements and physical appearance were more discussed by fathers in the father-centric subreddit. Overall, findings seem to show that mothers are generally more concerned about the practical sides of parenting while fathers' expressed concerns are more contextual: with other fathers, there seems to be a desire to show their fatherhood and be recognized for it while they discuss education with mothers. These results demonstrate that concerns expressed by parents on Reddit are context-sensitive but also consistent with gender stereotypes, potentially reflecting a persistent gendered and unequal division of labour in parenting.
