[Air-L] Please Cite Women Academics

[Kishonna Gray]

Great point to highlight Janet!  And thanks for the tips on how to research
Catherine.

I also want to urge women to share our work in spaces like these.  I notice
that those who share their recent work are mostly men.  We have to put our
work out there.  It's ok to 'polite brag'.  I find myself using social
media a lot more to advertise recent work but will do better using these
list serves.  But the point of the original was knowingly neglecting
contributions by women and women of color - especially when the work is
known.

And some of us are still academically siloed in specific fields where you
draw on the work from others in your field.  So my work may not reach
someone working in com or info science.  And many of us exist at the
intersection of multiple disciplines where we hope to show the connections
between all of us.  but sometimes our work gets lost if it doesn't exist
solely within one field...

great conversation!


On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Janet Sternberg <janet.sternberg at nyu.edu>
wrote:

> 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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