Representation of professions in entertainment media: Insights into frequency and sentiment trends through computational text analysis.

ABSTRACT: Societal ideas and trends dictate media narratives and cinematic depictions which in turn influence people's beliefs and perceptions of the real world. Media portrayal of individuals and social institutions related to culture, education, government, religion, and family affect their function and evolution over time as people perceive and incorporate the representations from portrayals into their everyday lives. It is important to study media depictions of social structures so that they do not propagate or reinforce negative stereotypes, or discriminate against a particular section of the society. In this work, we examine media representation of different professions and provide computational insights into their incidence, and sentiment expressed, in entertainment media content. We create a

SUBMITTER: Baruah S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9116627 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature