additional pieces of bias against women in journalism
Hi all, I have heard back from some folks claiming that the case Meryl highlighted was not indicative of larger trends. I thought I would pass on a few pieces that do deal with the fact that the omission and invisibility of female voices in journalism and journalistic writing is not a sporadic occurrence but a systematic one. If others have good pieces on the topic, I would love to see them. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/gender-diversity-journ... http://democracyjournal.org/magazine/31/closed-network/ http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/upshot/even-famous-female-economists-get-n... 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
I don't have peices to offer but the issue of women being systematically ignored in science and tech (let alone elsewhere in public and academia) is pretty clear as made evident in feminist technology studies etc. As far as I am concerned, FWIW, Meryl hits the nail on the head and does a great job of dealing with the comments on her piece. Thanks so much for highlighting this peice Gabriella (and of course Meryl for writing it) - I really encourage people to read it, and the comments. Sent from my phone so apologies for brevity and typos.
On 24 Feb 2016, at 14:54, Gabriella Biella Coleman <enid.coleman@mcgill.ca> wrote:
Hi all,
I have heard back from some folks claiming that the case Meryl highlighted was not indicative of larger trends. I thought I would pass on a few pieces that do deal with the fact that the omission and invisibility of female voices in journalism and journalistic writing is not a sporadic occurrence but a systematic one. If others have good pieces on the topic, I would love to see them.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/gender-diversity-journ...
http://democracyjournal.org/magazine/31/closed-network/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/upshot/even-famous-female-economists-get-n...
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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Oops and sorry for taking up airtime but I'm not finished :0) I think what Meryl does excellently in her article and the comments, is articulate a feminist approach to the construction of knowledge. It's something, despite all the individualistic institutional pressures we face, we should try to live ourselves. I'm trying, don't always get it right and am happy to be corrected. Unlike the journalist in question here. Sometimes you just gotta say - I missed a bit and/or I was wrong....
On 24 Feb 2016, at 15:10, Ben Light <ben.light@qut.edu.au> wrote:
I don't have peices to offer but the issue of women being systematically ignored in science and tech (let alone elsewhere in public and academia) is pretty clear as made evident in feminist technology studies etc.
As far as I am concerned, FWIW, Meryl hits the nail on the head and does a great job of dealing with the comments on her piece. Thanks so much for highlighting this peice Gabriella (and of course Meryl for writing it) - I really encourage people to read it, and the comments.
Sent from my phone so apologies for brevity and typos.
On 24 Feb 2016, at 14:54, Gabriella Biella Coleman <enid.coleman@mcgill.ca> wrote:
Hi all,
I have heard back from some folks claiming that the case Meryl highlighted was not indicative of larger trends. I thought I would pass on a few pieces that do deal with the fact that the omission and invisibility of female voices in journalism and journalistic writing is not a sporadic occurrence but a systematic one. If others have good pieces on the topic, I would love to see them.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/gender-diversity-journ...
http://democracyjournal.org/magazine/31/closed-network/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/upshot/even-famous-female-economists-get-n...
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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Hi there, There is a cool project called #WomenAlsoKnowStuff (You Should Ask Them About it), made by a group of female political scientists who protest against bias in media reports, as well as citing politics in academia. They set up a database (https://womenalsoknowstuff.wordpress.com/) where people can add female experts in various fields within political science. This project got coverage at the Washington Post recently: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/02/11/heres-a-list-o... Could be a nice project to take on regarding Internet studies more broadly... All the best, Elinor Carmi, Ph.D. Candidate and associate lecturer, Department of Media & Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London. www.pinkeee.com Twitter: @Elinor_Carmi ________________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Ben Light <ben.light@qut.edu.au> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 3:15 PM To: gabriella.coleman@mcgill.ca Cc: air-l@aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] additional pieces of bias against women in journalism Oops and sorry for taking up airtime but I'm not finished :0) I think what Meryl does excellently in her article and the comments, is articulate a feminist approach to the construction of knowledge. It's something, despite all the individualistic institutional pressures we face, we should try to live ourselves. I'm trying, don't always get it right and am happy to be corrected. Unlike the journalist in question here. Sometimes you just gotta say - I missed a bit and/or I was wrong....
On 24 Feb 2016, at 15:10, Ben Light <ben.light@qut.edu.au> wrote:
I don't have peices to offer but the issue of women being systematically ignored in science and tech (let alone elsewhere in public and academia) is pretty clear as made evident in feminist technology studies etc.
As far as I am concerned, FWIW, Meryl hits the nail on the head and does a great job of dealing with the comments on her piece. Thanks so much for highlighting this peice Gabriella (and of course Meryl for writing it) - I really encourage people to read it, and the comments.
Sent from my phone so apologies for brevity and typos.
On 24 Feb 2016, at 14:54, Gabriella Biella Coleman <enid.coleman@mcgill.ca> wrote:
Hi all,
I have heard back from some folks claiming that the case Meryl highlighted was not indicative of larger trends. I thought I would pass on a few pieces that do deal with the fact that the omission and invisibility of female voices in journalism and journalistic writing is not a sporadic occurrence but a systematic one. If others have good pieces on the topic, I would love to see them.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/gender-diversity-journ...
http://democracyjournal.org/magazine/31/closed-network/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/upshot/even-famous-female-economists-get-n...
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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A few friends of mine and myself are working on this for creative technology, critical theory, and art. It's crazy how many panels and articles reference ONLY men, especially in the creative coding scene where there are women, frequently, doing incredibly work. On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 7:53 AM, Elinor Carmi <e.carmi@gold.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi there,
There is a cool project called #WomenAlsoKnowStuff (You Should Ask Them About it), made by a group of female political scientists who protest against bias in media reports, as well as citing politics in academia.
They set up a database (https://womenalsoknowstuff.wordpress.com/) where people can add female experts in various fields within political science.
This project got coverage at the Washington Post recently: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/02/11/heres-a-list-o...
Could be a nice project to take on regarding Internet studies more broadly...
All the best, Elinor Carmi, Ph.D. Candidate and associate lecturer, Department of Media & Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London. www.pinkeee.com Twitter: @Elinor_Carmi
________________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Ben Light < ben.light@qut.edu.au> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 3:15 PM To: gabriella.coleman@mcgill.ca Cc: air-l@aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] additional pieces of bias against women in journalism
Oops and sorry for taking up airtime but I'm not finished :0)
I think what Meryl does excellently in her article and the comments, is articulate a feminist approach to the construction of knowledge.
It's something, despite all the individualistic institutional pressures we face, we should try to live ourselves. I'm trying, don't always get it right and am happy to be corrected. Unlike the journalist in question here. Sometimes you just gotta say - I missed a bit and/or I was wrong....
On 24 Feb 2016, at 15:10, Ben Light <ben.light@qut.edu.au> wrote:
I don't have peices to offer but the issue of women being systematically ignored in science and tech (let alone elsewhere in public and academia) is pretty clear as made evident in feminist technology studies etc.
As far as I am concerned, FWIW, Meryl hits the nail on the head and does a great job of dealing with the comments on her piece. Thanks so much for highlighting this peice Gabriella (and of course Meryl for writing it) - I really encourage people to read it, and the comments.
Sent from my phone so apologies for brevity and typos.
On 24 Feb 2016, at 14:54, Gabriella Biella Coleman < enid.coleman@mcgill.ca> wrote:
Hi all,
I have heard back from some folks claiming that the case Meryl highlighted was not indicative of larger trends. I thought I would pass on a few pieces that do deal with the fact that the omission and invisibility of female voices in journalism and journalistic writing is not a sporadic occurrence but a systematic one. If others have good pieces on the topic, I would love to see them.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/gender-diversity-journ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/upshot/even-famous-female-economists-get-n...
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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As some/many of you probably know, this issue is currently receiving some attention on the CITASA/CITAMS list. (ASA’s comm info tech and media list.) I don’t recall such triangulations before, and although this is on its own an important issue, the recognition is good to see. I am totally cross-posting this text there, no apologies. -Nat --------------------------- Nathaniel Poor, PhD http://github.com/natpoor http://natpoor.blogspot.com http://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/
On Feb 24, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Caroline Sinders <csinders@gmail.com> wrote:
A few friends of mine and myself are working on this for creative technology, critical theory, and art. It's crazy how many panels and articles reference ONLY men, especially in the creative coding scene where there are women, frequently, doing incredibly work.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 7:53 AM, Elinor Carmi <e.carmi@gold.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi there,
There is a cool project called #WomenAlsoKnowStuff (You Should Ask Them About it), made by a group of female political scientists who protest against bias in media reports, as well as citing politics in academia.
They set up a database (https://womenalsoknowstuff.wordpress.com/) where people can add female experts in various fields within political science.
This project got coverage at the Washington Post recently: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/02/11/heres-a-list-o...
Could be a nice project to take on regarding Internet studies more broadly...
All the best, Elinor Carmi, Ph.D. Candidate and associate lecturer, Department of Media & Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London. www.pinkeee.com Twitter: @Elinor_Carmi
________________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Ben Light < ben.light@qut.edu.au> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 3:15 PM To: gabriella.coleman@mcgill.ca Cc: air-l@aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] additional pieces of bias against women in journalism
Oops and sorry for taking up airtime but I'm not finished :0)
I think what Meryl does excellently in her article and the comments, is articulate a feminist approach to the construction of knowledge.
It's something, despite all the individualistic institutional pressures we face, we should try to live ourselves. I'm trying, don't always get it right and am happy to be corrected. Unlike the journalist in question here. Sometimes you just gotta say - I missed a bit and/or I was wrong....
On 24 Feb 2016, at 15:10, Ben Light <ben.light@qut.edu.au> wrote:
I don't have peices to offer but the issue of women being systematically ignored in science and tech (let alone elsewhere in public and academia) is pretty clear as made evident in feminist technology studies etc.
As far as I am concerned, FWIW, Meryl hits the nail on the head and does a great job of dealing with the comments on her piece. Thanks so much for highlighting this peice Gabriella (and of course Meryl for writing it) - I really encourage people to read it, and the comments.
Sent from my phone so apologies for brevity and typos.
On 24 Feb 2016, at 14:54, Gabriella Biella Coleman < enid.coleman@mcgill.ca> wrote:
Hi all,
I have heard back from some folks claiming that the case Meryl highlighted was not indicative of larger trends. I thought I would pass on a few pieces that do deal with the fact that the omission and invisibility of female voices in journalism and journalistic writing is not a sporadic occurrence but a systematic one. If others have good pieces on the topic, I would love to see them.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/gender-diversity-journ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/upshot/even-famous-female-economists-get-n...
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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In terms of all-male panels there is also this initiative: http://allmalepanels.tumblr.com/. It was started by (and is curated by) Saara Sarma, and includes examples across many disciplines and forums. -Kathleen brennan On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Caroline Sinders <csinders@gmail.com> wrote:
A few friends of mine and myself are working on this for creative technology, critical theory, and art. It's crazy how many panels and articles reference ONLY men, especially in the creative coding scene where there are women, frequently, doing incredibly work.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 7:53 AM, Elinor Carmi <e.carmi@gold.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi there,
There is a cool project called #WomenAlsoKnowStuff (You Should Ask Them About it), made by a group of female political scientists who protest against bias in media reports, as well as citing politics in academia.
They set up a database (https://womenalsoknowstuff.wordpress.com/) where people can add female experts in various fields within political science.
This project got coverage at the Washington Post recently:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/02/11/heres-a-list-o...
Could be a nice project to take on regarding Internet studies more broadly...
All the best, Elinor Carmi, Ph.D. Candidate and associate lecturer, Department of Media & Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London. www.pinkeee.com Twitter: @Elinor_Carmi
________________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Ben Light < ben.light@qut.edu.au> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 3:15 PM To: gabriella.coleman@mcgill.ca Cc: air-l@aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] additional pieces of bias against women in
journalism
Oops and sorry for taking up airtime but I'm not finished :0)
I think what Meryl does excellently in her article and the comments, is articulate a feminist approach to the construction of knowledge.
It's something, despite all the individualistic institutional pressures
we
face, we should try to live ourselves. I'm trying, don't always get it right and am happy to be corrected. Unlike the journalist in question here. Sometimes you just gotta say - I missed a bit and/or I was wrong....
On 24 Feb 2016, at 15:10, Ben Light <ben.light@qut.edu.au> wrote:
I don't have peices to offer but the issue of women being systematically ignored in science and tech (let alone elsewhere in public and academia) is pretty clear as made evident in feminist technology studies etc.
As far as I am concerned, FWIW, Meryl hits the nail on the head and does a great job of dealing with the comments on her piece. Thanks so much for highlighting this peice Gabriella (and of course Meryl for writing it) - I really encourage people to read it, and the comments.
Sent from my phone so apologies for brevity and typos.
On 24 Feb 2016, at 14:54, Gabriella Biella Coleman < enid.coleman@mcgill.ca> wrote:
Hi all,
I have heard back from some folks claiming that the case Meryl highlighted was not indicative of larger trends. I thought I would pass on a few pieces that do deal with the fact that the omission and invisibility of female voices in journalism and journalistic writing is not a sporadic occurrence but a systematic one. If others have good pieces on the topic, I would love to see them.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/gender-diversity-journ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/upshot/even-famous-female-economists-get-n...
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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Hi Biella, Not a piece but still an enlightening read: go to ssrn.com and peruse the lists of top authors by downloads and abstract views. (You may have to set up an account to see this information.) In law, 2 of the top 100 are women; taking it through the top 200 gets you up to 22ish (apologies but I can't fully decode all of the names). In top authors overall, looks like ~8ish in the top 100 and 14ish in the top 200; again, there may be a few more that I'm just not recognizing. They also do an eigenfactor column and the rankings do shift a bit there, but not enough to disrupt the overall imbalance. Best, Julie -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Gabriella "Biella" Coleman Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 9:54 AM To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] additional pieces of bias against women in journalism Hi all, I have heard back from some folks claiming that the case Meryl highlighted was not indicative of larger trends. I thought I would pass on a few pieces that do deal with the fact that the omission and invisibility of female voices in journalism and journalistic writing is not a sporadic occurrence but a systematic one. If others have good pieces on the topic, I would love to see them. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/gender-diversity-journ... http://democracyjournal.org/magazine/31/closed-network/ http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/upshot/even-famous-female-economists-get-n... 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 _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
See http://www.eigenfactor.org/gender/ for a visualization of gender balance of authors in JSTOR. Thanks, Cecilia -- Cecilia R. Aragon, Associate Professor Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington Senior Data Science Fellow, eScience Institute 407A Sieg Hall, Box 352315, Seattle, WA 98195 USA http://faculty.washington.edu/aragon On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Julie Cohen <jec@law.georgetown.edu> wrote:
Hi Biella,
Not a piece but still an enlightening read: go to ssrn.com and peruse the lists of top authors by downloads and abstract views. (You may have to set up an account to see this information.) In law, 2 of the top 100 are women; taking it through the top 200 gets you up to 22ish (apologies but I can't fully decode all of the names). In top authors overall, looks like ~8ish in the top 100 and 14ish in the top 200; again, there may be a few more that I'm just not recognizing. They also do an eigenfactor column and the rankings do shift a bit there, but not enough to disrupt the overall imbalance.
Best, Julie
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Gabriella "Biella" Coleman Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 9:54 AM To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] additional pieces of bias against women in journalism
Hi all,
I have heard back from some folks claiming that the case Meryl highlighted was not indicative of larger trends. I thought I would pass on a few pieces that do deal with the fact that the omission and invisibility of female voices in journalism and journalistic writing is not a sporadic occurrence but a systematic one. If others have good pieces on the topic, I would love to see them.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/gender-diversity-journ...
http://democracyjournal.org/magazine/31/closed-network/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/upshot/even-famous-female-economists-get-n...
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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One thing on my “list of future grad school projects” for awhile has been to take the gender-name-detection tools that Nate Matias and Sarah Szalavitz built for news/Twitter and try to modify them to run over citations. There are some technical challenges (especially for those journals that don’t include full name) and epistemic ones (for a load of reasons, including not only ‘decoding’ as Julie mentions but also presuming the assignation), but it seems like it could be a good way to approximately gauge patterns and try to suggest to authors how their work might be skewed (I for one would love a tool that reminded me as I’m researching/writing an article what the demography of my research pool looks like). And you could imagine trying to add other intersections (e.g. race) in as well. — Chris ps and if anyone wants to steal this idea, please do it, since even though this project is fairly high up the list I don’t know how far I’ll ever get anywhere on it!
On Feb 24, 2016, at 1:42 PM, Julie Cohen <jec@law.georgetown.edu> wrote:
Hi Biella,
Not a piece but still an enlightening read: go to ssrn.com and peruse the lists of top authors by downloads and abstract views. (You may have to set up an account to see this information.) In law, 2 of the top 100 are women; taking it through the top 200 gets you up to 22ish (apologies but I can't fully decode all of the names). In top authors overall, looks like ~8ish in the top 100 and 14ish in the top 200; again, there may be a few more that I'm just not recognizing. They also do an eigenfactor column and the rankings do shift a bit there, but not enough to disrupt the overall imbalance.
Best, Julie
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Gabriella "Biella" Coleman Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 9:54 AM To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] additional pieces of bias against women in journalism
Hi all,
I have heard back from some folks claiming that the case Meryl highlighted was not indicative of larger trends. I thought I would pass on a few pieces that do deal with the fact that the omission and invisibility of female voices in journalism and journalistic writing is not a sporadic occurrence but a systematic one. If others have good pieces on the topic, I would love to see them.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/gender-diversity-journ...
http://democracyjournal.org/magazine/31/closed-network/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/upshot/even-famous-female-economists-get-n...
All best, Gabriella
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Jevin West released some of his gender-name-detection tools open source, and I believe Jofish Kaye did as well: http://jofish.com/writing/alt16-kaye.pdf On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Chris Peterson <chris@cpeterson.org> wrote:
One thing on my “list of future grad school projects” for awhile has been to take the gender-name-detection tools that Nate Matias and Sarah Szalavitz built for news/Twitter and try to modify them to run over citations.
There are some technical challenges (especially for those journals that don’t include full name) and epistemic ones (for a load of reasons, including not only ‘decoding’ as Julie mentions but also presuming the assignation), but it seems like it could be a good way to approximately gauge patterns and try to suggest to authors how their work might be skewed (I for one would love a tool that reminded me as I’m researching/writing an article what the demography of my research pool looks like). And you could imagine trying to add other intersections (e.g. race) in as well.
— Chris
ps and if anyone wants to steal this idea, please do it, since even though this project is fairly high up the list I don’t know how far I’ll ever get anywhere on it!
On Feb 24, 2016, at 1:42 PM, Julie Cohen <jec@law.georgetown.edu> wrote:
Hi Biella,
Not a piece but still an enlightening read: go to ssrn.com and peruse the lists of top authors by downloads and abstract views. (You may have to set up an account to see this information.) In law, 2 of the top 100 are women; taking it through the top 200 gets you up to 22ish (apologies but I can't fully decode all of the names). In top authors overall, looks like ~8ish in the top 100 and 14ish in the top 200; again, there may be a few more that I'm just not recognizing. They also do an eigenfactor column and the rankings do shift a bit there, but not enough to disrupt the overall imbalance.
Best, Julie
-----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Gabriella "Biella" Coleman Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 9:54 AM To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] additional pieces of bias against women in journalism
Hi all,
I have heard back from some folks claiming that the case Meryl highlighted was not indicative of larger trends. I thought I would pass on a few pieces that do deal with the fact that the omission and invisibility of female voices in journalism and journalistic writing is not a sporadic occurrence but a systematic one. If others have good pieces on the topic, I would love to see them.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/gender-diversity-journ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/upshot/even-famous-female-economists-get-n...
All best, Gabriella
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History & Communication Studies McGill University
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On 02/24/2016 02:39 PM, Cecilia Aragon wrote:
Jevin West released some of his gender-name-detection tools open source, and I believe Jofish Kaye did as well: http://jofish.com/writing/alt16-kaye.pdf
BTW: Two simple guessers in python by name (dictionaries) and the balance of gendered pronouns in Wikipedia biographies. <http://reagle.org/joseph/pelican/technology/guessing-the-gender-of-bibliographic-subjects.html>
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