Workshop Proceedings of the 19th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Workshop: CySoc 2025: 6th International Workshop on Cyber Social Threats
DOI: 10.36190/2025.14Published:
2025-06-05
Gender Inequalities in Content Collaborations: Asymmetric Creator Synergyand Symmetric Audience Biases
The growth of vibrant gaming communities has been driven by the accessibility of platforms that allow gaming content to easily be consumed and go viral. However, gaming communities also mirror and exacerbate real-world social inequalities, especially with relation to gender. Leveraging 42,376 videos and 6,117,441 comments from YouTube (across 150 channels and 3 games), this study examines gender inequality in collaborative content creation. We introduce a dual demand-supply framework for understanding social media harms: supply-side factors shape how content is produced and structured, while d...