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

Wed Feb 24 11:48:13 PST 2016

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 at 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 at 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-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
> >
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > 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
> > Cc: air-l at 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 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
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> 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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