[Air-L] Please Cite Women Academics

[Smith, Catherine]

Hello,

Well-said.  Formerly it was standard pedagogy in teaching research methods to show students how to identify the the indexing terms (vocabulary) used by search tools, e.g. library cataloging systems and dabatases (pre-Google).  That's how a researcher identified the limitations of any single tool's scope as well as alternative research terms.  It's still good practice and adaptive to today's search tools and information capture devices.   To learn how, maybe ask a reference librarian.  

Catherine F. Smith
Professor (retired)
English, East Carolina University
Composition and Cultural Rhetoric, Syracuse University
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Subject: Re: [Air-L] Please Cite Women Academics

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
>

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