Quantifying gender disparities and bias online: editors’
introduction to “Gender Gaps in Digital Spaces”
special issue

Quantifying gender disparities and bias online: editors’
introduction to “Gender Gaps in Digital Spaces”
special issue

Quantifying gender

This special issue collects studies about how gender divides manifest in digital environments, spanning online repositories, social media, and
AI-powered technologies. Computational research helps in assessing the nature and prevalence of gender divides: Identifying differences and
bias requires defining benchmarks, systematic departures, and overall incidence. This collection showcases evidence uncovered quantitatively

and illustrates how such evidence can advance theoretical understanding of gender dynamics as socially constructed phenomena. Social inter-
actions and discursive practices are shaped by the technologies we use to communicate, work, and organize. These technologies shape, in

turn, how we perceive and reinforce gender stereotypes. In this editors‘ note, we discuss how the seven articles included in the special issue

unpack communicative processes in the context of various online environments, disentangling gendered dynamics from the use of digital tech-
nologies. Ultimately, our goal is to energize a research agenda that requires continued work as technologies morph and evolve in unprece-
dented directions.

Emoke- } Agnes � Horvat � 1 and Sandra Gonzalez-Bail � on

https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmad054

Oxford University Press on behalf of International Communication Association.

13 December 2023

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