Gender, digital spaces and AI

Daniela de los Santos | Nov 1, 2026 min read

Some of my recent work uses social media data, natural language processing and AI models to study gender inequalities in digital spaces: from violence against women in leadership positions to the digital strategies of feminist movements.

-De los Santos, Daniela, Martin, Guillermina, Urriola, Ivonne & Voria, Andrea (2025). ‘Entre el menosprecio y las amenazas: análisis de violencia digital contra las mujeres en ocho países de Iberoamérica’. UNDP-LAC – Policy Notes 38. Read it here.

-Llanos, Beatriz, De los Santos, Daniela & Incio, José (2023). ‘Mujeres en movimiento(s): el poder del activismo, la incidencia y las estrategias digitales para impulsar transformaciones’. Atenea. UNDP, UN Women and International IDEA. Read the report here.

You can also explore a related exercise, developed during my MSc, that uses NLP models (BERT, LSTM, RNN) to classify stances in tweets about abortion, atheism, feminism and climate: code available here.