Beyond Bechdel: Using Computation to Analyze Gender in Film
Columbia University, Mudd Building, Computer Science Conference Room 500 W. 120th Street, new yorkThis workshop will explore using computational methods to analyze gender in movies. Movies lend themselves nicely to computation, since researchers can leverage scripts, visuals, or metadata (e.g. genre, year, cast members and production crew). For example, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media used machine learning to automatically detect the gender of characters in [...]
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