[Air-L] additional pieces of bias against women in journalism

[Elinor Carmi]

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-of-smart-women-political-scientists-they-know-stuff-too/

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


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From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Ben Light <ben.light at qut.edu.au>
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 3:15 PM
To: gabriella.coleman at mcgill.ca
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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 at 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 at 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-journalism/463023/
>>
>> http://democracyjournal.org/magazine/31/closed-network/
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/upshot/even-famous-female-economists-get-no-respect.html?_r=0
>>
>> All best,
>> Gabriella
>>
>>
>>
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