Hurricanes are ungendered phenomena that are ascribed with gendered names. Dr. Ly Dinh and collegues examined if news information about the hurricanes are presented using gendered language. This work helps identify if people use gender stereotyping when referring to gender-neutral entities, and what these stereotypes might be. To read the full article, visit the Computational Communication Research Journal.
Dr. Dinh is a computational social science researcher studying how research methods such as network analysis, social simulation models, and text analysis, can be used to advance our understanding of various social and organizational systems. Dr. Dinh's current projects place network science at the core to understand and explain a number of social and organizational phenomena ranging from egocentric networks to interagency emergency response networks.