The blue-colored professions have the top 10 highest proportion of positive sentiment mentions. The red-colored professions have the top 10 highest proportion of negative sentiment mentions. Credit: Baruah et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Across 70 years of data on media subtitles for television and film, architecture and engineering are the most positively portrayed professions, whereas sales-related professions fare worst, find the authors of a new study published in the open access journal PLOS ONE.
Probing media depictions of professions can highlight stereotypes or discrimination. It can also underscore trends in career choices: for example, the television series “Mad …
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