Pseudonymous Parents: Comparing Parenting Roles and Identities on the Mommit and Daddit Subreddits

被引:50
作者
Ammari, Tawfiq [1 ]
Schoenebeck, Sarita [1 ]
Romero, Daniel M. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Michigan, Sch Informat, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
来源
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2018 CHI CONFERENCE ON HUMAN FACTORS IN COMPUTING SYSTEMS (CHI 2018) | 2018年
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Reddit; gender; parenting; anonymity; pseudonymity; social media; language; FATHERS; INVOLVEMENT; WORK;
D O I
10.1145/3173574.3174063
中图分类号
TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
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 discuss sensitive parenting topics. We conclude by highlighting the benefits of both gender-inclusive and role-specific parenting boards. This work provides a roadmap for using computational techniques to understand parenting practices online at large scale.
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