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

[Cecilia Aragon]

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 at 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 at 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 at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of
> Gabriella "Biella" Coleman
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 9:54 AM
> > To: air-l at 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-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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