Cannabis Sativa

Authors
Tawfiq Ammari, Sarita Schoenebeck, Daniel M Romero
Publication date
2018/4/21
Book
Proceedings of the 2018 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems
Pages
1-13
Description
Gender equality between mothers and fathers is critical for the social and economic wellbeing of children, mothers, and families. Over the past 50 years, gender roles have begun to converge, with mothers doing more work outside of the home and fathers doing more domestic work. However, popular parenting sites in the U.S. continue to be heavily gendered. We explore parenting roles and identities on the platform Reddit.com which is used by both mothers and fathers. We draw on seven years of data from three major parenting subreddits-Parenting, Mommit, and Daddit-to investigate what topics parents discuss on Reddit and how they vary across parenting subreddits. We find some similarities in topics across the three boards, such as sleep training, as well as differences, such as fathers talking about custody cases and Halloween. We discuss the role of pseudonymity for providing parents with a platform to …
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Scholar articles
T Ammari, S Schoenebeck, DM Romero - Proceedings of the 2018 CHI conference on human …, 2018

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