Diferencias de género en la percepción de la ciudadanía española sobre la Ciencia de Datos

  1. Patricia Sánchez-Holgado 1
  2. María Marcos-Ramos 1
  3. Beatriz González-de-Garay-Domínguez 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

Journal:
Doxa Comunicación: revista interdisciplinar de estudios de comunicación y ciencias sociales

ISSN: 1696-019X

Year of publication: 2021

Issue: 33

Pages: 235-256

Type: Article

DOI: 10.31921/DOXACOM.N33A1126 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

More publications in: Doxa Comunicación: revista interdisciplinar de estudios de comunicación y ciencias sociales

Abstract

The aim of this article is to determine whether there are gender differences with regard to the knowledge and attitudes of Spanish citizens toward data science, and whether those perceptions have been altered by the pandemic. For this purpose, an online survey with closed questions was conducted with a representative sample of 1,105 male and female citizens in two phases (January and October of 2020), in order to compare the degree to which the Covid-19 pandemic has influenced such perceptions. The results show that knowledge regarding Big Data and Artificial Intelligence is modest, being higher among men, especially in relation to Big Data. Moreover, the level of interest decreased in the second phase in both genders, which points to several gender differences with regard to the perception of benefits and risks of their application, such as the following: men perceived more benefits than women, while women generally perceived more risks with all technological applications in the first phase, yet in the second phase their perception of benefits rose to a level nearly equal to that of men. It has also been observed that in the second phase the perception of risk increased for both genders, and that the differences between the two are not significant.

Funding information

Este trabajo forma parte del proyecto DATASCIENCE SPAIN, sobre el conocimiento y la percepción de la ciencia de los datos, el big data y la inteligencia artificial, desarrollado en la Universidad de Salamanca, por miembros del Observatorio de los Contenidos Audiovisuales. Está financiado con referencia FCT-18-13437, por la Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT), organismo perteneciente al Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación de España, en la Convocatoria de ayudas para el fomento de la cultura científica, tecnológica y de la innovación

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