White, Man, and Highly Followed: Gender and Race Inequalities in Twitter∗ Johnnatan Messias Pantelis Vikatos Fabricio Benevenuto Universidade Federal de Minas University of Patras Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Rio, Greece Gerais Belo Horizonte,...
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White, Man, and Highly Followed: Gender and Race Inequalities in Twitter∗ Johnnatan Messias Pantelis Vikatos Fabricio Benevenuto Universidade Federal de Minas University of Patras Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Rio, Greece Gerais Belo Horizonte, Brazil vikatos@ceid.upatras.gr Belo Horizonte, Brazil johnnatan@dcc.ufmg.br fabricio@dcc.ufmg.br ABSTRACT Twitter is used to vet job candidates, support divorce litigation, Social media is considered a democratic space in which people or terminate employees. Although these platforms provide a arXiv:1706.08619v1 [cs.SI] 26 Jun 2017 connect and interact with each other regardless of their gender, democrat space for conversations and debates, they also open race, or any other demographic factor. Despite numerous ef- space for unsolved issues of our society, such as gender and forts that explore demographic factors in social media, it is still race inequalities. unclear whether social media perpetuates old inequalities from Indeed, inequaliti
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