Laura K. Nelson
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Translating Interdisciplinary Knowledge for Gender Equity: Quantifying the Impact of NSF ADVANCE
Interdisciplinarity is often hailed as a necessity for tackling real-world challenges. We examine the prevalence and impact of interdisciplinarity in the NSF ADVANCE program, finding ADVANCE publications exhibit higher levels of interdisciplinarity across three dimensions of knowledge integration. These findings emphasize the significance of interdisciplinarity in problem-oriented knowledge production, indicating that specific forms of interdisciplinarity can lead to broader impact.
Alexander J. Gates
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Jessica R. Gold
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Laura K. Nelson
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Kathrin Zippel
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Gender and Inconsistent Evaluations: A Mixed-methods Analysis of Feedback for Emergency Medicine Residents
Prior research has demonstrated that men and women emergency medicine (EM) residents receive similar numerical evaluations at the beginning of residency, but that women receive significantly lower scores than men in their final year. To better understand the emergence of this gender gap in evaluations we examined discrepancies between numerical scores and the sentiment of attached textual comments.
Alexandra Brewer
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Laura K. Nelson
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Anna S. Mueller
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Rebecca Ewert
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Daniel M. O'Connor
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Arjun Dayal
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Vineet M. Arora
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Taking the Time: The Implications of Workplace Assessment for Organizational Gender Inequality
This paper examines gendered differences in workplace assessment in eight U.S. hospitals, finding that, compared to men, women attendings wrote more words in their comments to residents, used more job-related terms, and were more likely to provide helpful feedback, particularly when residents were struggling, while women residents were less likely to receive substantive evaluations.
Laura K. Nelson
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Alexandra Brewer
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Anna S. Mueller
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Daniel M. O'Connor
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Arjun Dayal
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Vineet M. Arora
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Beyond Protests: Using Computational Text Analysis to Explore a Greater Variety of Social Movement Activities
In this paper, we use the environmental movement as a case study, analyzing data from a wide range of local, regional, and national newspapers in the United States to quantify multiple facets of social movements.
Brayden G King
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Laura K. Nelson
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Formally comparing topic models and human-generated qualitative coding of physician mothers’ experiences of workplace discrimination
Differences between computationally generated and human-generated themes in unstructured text are important to understand yet difficult to assess formally. In this study, we bridge these approaches, comparing topic models to hand-generated categories and comparing two different topic modelling solutions.
Adam S. Miner
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Sheridan A. Stewart
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Meghan C. Halley
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Laura K. Nelson
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Eleni Linos
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From Ends to Means: The Promise of Computational Text Analysis for Theoretically Driven Sociological Research
In presenting the contributions to a special issue, we discuss several insights that emerge from this work, which hold relevance not only for current and aspiring practitioners of computational text analysis, but also for its skeptics.
Bart Bonikowski
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Laura K. Nelson
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Situated Knowledges and Partial Perspectives: A Framework for Radical Objectivity in Computational Social Science and Computational Humanities
Starting from the premise that objectivity in knowledge creation is a worthy—even utopian—pursuit, this essay argues that computational methods are aligned with embodied objectivity and the situated knowledges and partial perspectives framework proposed by Donna Haraway.
Laura K. Nelson
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The Inequality of Intersectionalities in Chicago’s First-Wave Women’s Movement
This article uses network and text analyses methods to reexamine the intersections of race, class, gender, and ethnicity in first-wave feminist organizations in Chicago during the Progressive Era, from 1860 to 1920.
Laura K. Nelson
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The NSF ADVANCE Network of Organizations
As the ADVANCE program celebrates its 20th anniversary, we describe the growth and composition of the organizational network over the past two decades to explore the breadth and reach of the ADVANCE program in the U.S. higher education system.
Jessica R. Gold
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Alexander J. Gates
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Syed A. Haque
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Miranda C. Melson
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Laura K. Nelson
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Kathrin Zippel
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And the Rest is History: Measuring the Scope and Recall of Wikipedia’s Coverage of Three Women’s Movement Subgroups
Narrating history is perpetually contested, shaping and reshaping how nations and people understand both their pasts and the current moment. Measuring and evaluating the scope of histories is methodologically challenging. In this paper we provide a general approach and a specific method to measure historical recall.
Laura K. Nelson
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Rebekah Getman
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Syed Arefinul Haque
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Leveraging the Alignment Between Machine Learning and Intersectionality: Using Word Embeddings to Measure Intersectional Experiences of the Nineteenth Century U.S. South
I empirically demonstrate the alignment between machine learning and inductive research through a word embedding model of first-person narratives of the nineteenth-century U.S. South.
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From Theory to Practice and Back: How the Concept of Implicit Bias was Implemented in Academe, and What this Means for Gender Theories of Organizational Change
Using an inductive, theory-building approach and combination of computational and qualitative methods, we investigate how the concept of implicit bias was translated into practice through the ADVANCE program and identify five key features that made implicit bias useful as a change framework in the academic STEM setting.
Laura K. Nelson
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Kathrin Zippel
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Cycles of Conflict, a Century of Continuity: The Impact of Persistent Place-Based Political Logics on Social Movement Strategy
Using a combination of network analysis, computational text analysis, and qualitative interpretation, the author examines women’s movement discourses across the first and second waves of activism and between two sites, New York City and Chicago. Place, she finds, serves to capture differences in political logics that generate durable differences within movement discourse.
Laura K. Nelson
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The Future of Coding: A Comparison of Hand-Coding and Three Types of Computer-Assisted Text Analysis Methods
This article compares three common computer-assisted approaches—dictionary, supervised machine learning, and unsupervised machine learning—to those produced through a rigorous hand-coding analysis of inequality in the news.
Laura K. Nelson
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Derek Burk
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Marcel Knudsen
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Leslie McCall
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The Meaning of Action: Linking Goal Orientations, Tactics, and Strategies in the Environmental Movement
Using the U.S. environmental movement as a case study, and employing a data-driven and inductive strategy that combines both computational and qualitative methods, we find that strategy emerges as organizations link their actions to their goal orientation: what level of society the organization views as the locus of change.
Laura K. Nelson
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Brayden G King
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Computational Grounded Theory: A Methodological Framework
This article proposes a three-step methodological framework called computational grounded theory, which combines expert human knowledge and hermeneutic skills with the processing power and pattern recognition of computers, producing a more methodologically rigorous but interpretive approach to content analysis.
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To Measure Meaning in Big Data, Don’t Give Me a Map, Give Me Transparency and Reproducibility
In an attempt to reorient the field toward a new standard for measuring meaning in big data, one based on transparency and replicability, I propose five guidelines to evaluate any text-analysis project.
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Feminists Reshaping Gender
The gender order is incredibly durable, and persists relatively unchanged despite major cultural and structural changes. Feminists, however, have collectively mobilized to change some aspects of the gender structure. This chapter traces that history and looks to the future.
Alison Dahl Crossley
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Laura K. Nelson
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‘Feminism Means More Than a Changed World...It Means the Creation of a New Consciousness in Women’: Feminism, Consciousness-Raising, and Continuity Between the Waves
Challenging the notion that public actions and political lobbying are the women’s movement’s main tactics, this chapter traces the history of an extra-institutional form of feminism—narrative-based consciousness-raising—from its inception in the 1910s through its contemporary online expression today.
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