[Air-L] Please Cite Women Academics

[Janet Sternberg]

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-academics/
>
> All best,
> Gabriella
>