BibTeX
@inproceedings{falenska-etal-2024-self-reported,
abstract = {Research on language as interactive discourse underscores the deliberate use of demographic parameters such as gender, ethnicity, and class to shape social identities. For example, by explicitly disclosing one{'}s information and enforcing one{'}s social identity to an online community, the reception by and interaction with the said community is impacted, e.g., strengthening one{'}s opinions by depicting the speaker as credible through their experience in the subject. Here, we present a first thorough study of the role and effects of self-disclosures on online discourse dynamics, focusing on a pervasive type of self-disclosure: author gender. Concretely, we investigate the contexts and properties of gender self-disclosures and their impact on interaction dynamics in an online persuasive forum, ChangeMyView. Our contribution is twofold. At the level of the target phenomenon, we fill a research gap in the understanding of the impact of these self-disclosures on the discourse by bringing together features related to forum activity (votes, number of comments), linguistic/stylistic features from the literature, and discourse topics. At the level of the contributed resource, we enrich and release a comprehensive dataset that will provide a further impulse for research on the interplay between gender disclosures, community interaction, and persuasion in online discourse.},
address = {Torino, Italia},
author = {Falenska, Agnieszka and Vecchi, Eva Maria and Lapesa, Gabriella},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)},
editor = {Calzolari, Nicoletta and Kan, Min-Yen and Hoste, Veronique and Lenci, Alessandro and Sakti, Sakriani and Xue, Nianwen},
month = {05},
pages = {14606-14621},
publisher = {ELRA and ICCL},
title = {Self-reported Demographics and Discourse Dynamics in a Persuasive Online Forum},
url = {https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1272},
year = 2024
}