Challenging implicit gender stereotypes in Italian news through language
Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism
Published online on August 28, 2025
Abstract
Journalism, Volume 27, Issue 8, Page 2390-2410, August 2026.
This paper investigates gender stereotypes in Italian news by analyzing statistical representations provided by Word Embeddings of a sample of occupational names and political titles. The findings demonstrate that journalistic language encodes gender ...
This paper investigates gender stereotypes in Italian news by analyzing statistical representations provided by Word Embeddings of a sample of occupational names and political titles. The findings demonstrate that journalistic language encodes gender ...