Please Cite Women Academics
Hi all, I am posting this very interesting blog post on behalf of its author Meryl Alper (who is changing email addresses and can't post here right now). It raises all sorts of vital questions about the erasure of women's academic work in tech reporting. The comments too are quite lively and worth taking a read: https://merylalper.com/2016/02/22/please-read-the-article-please-cite-women-... All best, Gabriella -- Gabriella Coleman Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy Department of Art History & Communication Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, PQ H3A 0G5 http://gabriellacoleman.org/ 514-398-8572
Thanks for sharing this. I enjoyed the discussion on the hackademia list and it's an important issue. I found this interesting piece in the Chronicle about this issue (including citation facts by gender) in academia: https://chroniclevitae.com/news/472-are-you-reading-enough-academic-women I would also like to extend this discussion to also include citing women of color as this article highlights: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/race/news/2014/08/06/95248/race-and-... Best, Gabriela On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Gabriella "Biella" Coleman < enid.coleman@mcgill.ca> wrote:
Hi all,
I am posting this very interesting blog post on behalf of its author Meryl Alper (who is changing email addresses and can't post here right now). It raises all sorts of vital questions about the erasure of women's academic work in tech reporting. The comments too are quite lively and worth taking a read:
https://merylalper.com/2016/02/22/please-read-the-article-please-cite-women-...
All best, Gabriella
-- Gabriella Coleman Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy Department of Art History & Communication Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, PQ H3A 0G5 http://gabriellacoleman.org/ 514-398-8572
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Greetings, Limited research skills/efforts are often as much to blame as gender bias in failure to cite relevant work. For example, academics and journalists (including women) writing about online harassment rarely cite my 2001 dissertation and 2012 book, "Misbehavior in Cyber Places: The Regulation of Online Conduct in Virtual Communities on the Internet." Researchers who only search for "trolling" or "troll" will likely miss my work on misbehavior because they don't search broader terms like "online conduct." Just a few decades ago, researchers were encouraged to look for a variety of synonymous terms in order to uncover relevant related work, but nowadays folks tend to search rather specific terms, and if they don't find exact matches, they seem to assume no other relevant research exists. Of course, gender bias continues to be a problem, but it's not the only reason relevant academic work gets neglected. Janet Sternberg, PhD http://about.me/JanetPhD Media scholar & author of book: Misbehavior in Cyber Places http://misbehaviorincyberplaces.tumblr.com On 02/23/2016 12:57 PM, Gabriella "Biella" Coleman wrote:
Hi all,
I am posting this very interesting blog post on behalf of its author Meryl Alper (who is changing email addresses and can't post here right now). It raises all sorts of vital questions about the erasure of women's academic work in tech reporting. The comments too are quite lively and worth taking a read:
https://merylalper.com/2016/02/22/please-read-the-article-please-cite-women-...
All best, Gabriella
Hello, Well-said. Formerly it was standard pedagogy in teaching research methods to show students how to identify the the indexing terms (vocabulary) used by search tools, e.g. library cataloging systems and dabatases (pre-Google). That's how a researcher identified the limitations of any single tool's scope as well as alternative research terms. It's still good practice and adaptive to today's search tools and information capture devices. To learn how, maybe ask a reference librarian. Catherine F. Smith Professor (retired) English, East Carolina University Composition and Cultural Rhetoric, Syracuse University ________________________________________ From: Air-L [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Janet Sternberg [janet.sternberg@nyu.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 10:53 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Please Cite Women Academics Greetings, Limited research skills/efforts are often as much to blame as gender bias in failure to cite relevant work. For example, academics and journalists (including women) writing about online harassment rarely cite my 2001 dissertation and 2012 book, "Misbehavior in Cyber Places: The Regulation of Online Conduct in Virtual Communities on the Internet." Researchers who only search for "trolling" or "troll" will likely miss my work on misbehavior because they don't search broader terms like "online conduct." Just a few decades ago, researchers were encouraged to look for a variety of synonymous terms in order to uncover relevant related work, but nowadays folks tend to search rather specific terms, and if they don't find exact matches, they seem to assume no other relevant research exists. Of course, gender bias continues to be a problem, but it's not the only reason relevant academic work gets neglected. Janet Sternberg, PhD http://about.me/JanetPhD Media scholar & author of book: Misbehavior in Cyber Places http://misbehaviorincyberplaces.tumblr.com On 02/23/2016 12:57 PM, Gabriella "Biella" Coleman wrote:
Hi all,
I am posting this very interesting blog post on behalf of its author Meryl Alper (who is changing email addresses and can't post here right now). It raises all sorts of vital questions about the erasure of women's academic work in tech reporting. The comments too are quite lively and worth taking a read:
https://merylalper.com/2016/02/22/please-read-the-article-please-cite-women-...
All best, Gabriella
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Great point to highlight Janet! And thanks for the tips on how to research Catherine. I also want to urge women to share our work in spaces like these. I notice that those who share their recent work are mostly men. We have to put our work out there. It's ok to 'polite brag'. I find myself using social media a lot more to advertise recent work but will do better using these list serves. But the point of the original was knowingly neglecting contributions by women and women of color - especially when the work is known. And some of us are still academically siloed in specific fields where you draw on the work from others in your field. So my work may not reach someone working in com or info science. And many of us exist at the intersection of multiple disciplines where we hope to show the connections between all of us. but sometimes our work gets lost if it doesn't exist solely within one field... great conversation! On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Janet Sternberg <janet.sternberg@nyu.edu> wrote:
Greetings,
Limited research skills/efforts are often as much to blame as gender bias in failure to cite relevant work. For example, academics and journalists (including women) writing about online harassment rarely cite my 2001 dissertation and 2012 book, "Misbehavior in Cyber Places: The Regulation of Online Conduct in Virtual Communities on the Internet." Researchers who only search for "trolling" or "troll" will likely miss my work on misbehavior because they don't search broader terms like "online conduct." Just a few decades ago, researchers were encouraged to look for a variety of synonymous terms in order to uncover relevant related work, but nowadays folks tend to search rather specific terms, and if they don't find exact matches, they seem to assume no other relevant research exists. Of course, gender bias continues to be a problem, but it's not the only reason relevant academic work gets neglected.
Janet Sternberg, PhD http://about.me/JanetPhD Media scholar & author of book: Misbehavior in Cyber Places http://misbehaviorincyberplaces.tumblr.com
On 02/23/2016 12:57 PM, Gabriella "Biella" Coleman wrote:
Hi all,
I am posting this very interesting blog post on behalf of its author Meryl Alper (who is changing email addresses and can't post here right now). It raises all sorts of vital questions about the erasure of women's academic work in tech reporting. The comments too are quite lively and worth taking a read:
https://merylalper.com/2016/02/22/please-read-the-article-please-cite-women-...
All best, Gabriella
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