[Air-L] Please Cite Women Academics

Sat Feb 27 00:00:16 PST 2016

"Also remember - a lot of women and people of color do a ton of service -
we are on hiring committees, we do a lot of journal and book (peer) reviews
 - we make ourselves available even when there is no clear monetary or
other value attached to the work."

that is - WE review your work.... if our work (and that of many others
working on a particular topic from a range of locations relevant to a
scholarly piece) is not cited we do notice.

r

Radhika Gajjala
*Co-editor of ADA: Journal of Gender and New Media*
*http://adanewmedia.org <http://adanewmedia.org>*

*Fulbright Professor/Research Scholar in Digital Culture at University of
Bergen, August 1, 2015-July 31, 2016*
*__*

Professor
School of Media and Communication
and
American Culture Studies Program
Bowling Green State University,
Bowling Green Ohio
http://www.radhikagajjala.org <http://www.cyberdiva.org/>

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Radhika
Gajjala
Fulbright Professor (2015-2016)
Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies
<http://www.uib.no/en/lle>
Visit Address:
HF-bygget, Sydnesplassen 7
5020 Bergen
Postal Address:
Postboks 7805
5020 Bergen
Phone:
+47 55 58 97 63
E-mail:
Radhika.Gajjala at uib.no
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On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Radhika G <gradhika2012 at gmail.com> wrote:

> My three cents here.
>
> Its not enough to "add and stir" women's work or "gender" focused work.
>
> It is important to understand that women, international scholars of
> various caste/class/race/ethnicity backgrounds are doing VERY good work and
> engaging issues from various contexts and standpoints that are integral to
> the practice of global knowledge building.
>
> If someone has a Phd advisor, course instructor or mentor who does not
> understand this and merely encourages budding researchers to pick up
> "gender" from women, POC issues from people of color, "international"
> topics from international seeming named scholars - and they do not see how
> embedded we ALL are and how the scholarly debates and discussions  (white
> males included:)) to their research/writing - the person who does NOT cite
> diverse scholars is the loser.
>
> Because - they are not doing what it takes to do the in-depth literature
> review to begin with.
>
> The argument of "i don't cite feminists because I'm not doing gender" or
> "I don't cite race related work because I'm not focusing on race or don't
> believe it exists in my context I'm examining" doesn't hold...
>
> These scholarly viewpoints and investigations existing - and have been put
> through very strong peer review processes - just as much as the standard
> names that are considered to be "academic capital"
>
> My  view - if you're not looking for and citing women or any one else not
> straight under your nose - your work suffer.
>
> Also remember - a lot of women and people of color do a ton of service -
> we are on hiring committees, we do a lot of journal and book (peer) reviews
>  - we make ourselves available even when there is no clear monetary or
> other value attached to the work.
>
> :)
>
> thanks for listening.
>
> r
>
> Radhika Gajjala
> *Co-editor of ADA: Journal of Gender and New Media*
> *http://adanewmedia.org <http://adanewmedia.org>*
>
> *Fulbright Professor/Research Scholar in Digital Culture at University of
> Bergen, August 1, 2015-July 31, 2016*
> *__*
>
> Professor
> School of Media and Communication
> and
> American Culture Studies Program
> Bowling Green State University,
> Bowling Green Ohio
> http://www.radhikagajjala.org <http://www.cyberdiva.org/>
>
> __
>
> Radhika
> Gajjala
> Fulbright Professor (2015-2016)
> Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies
> <http://www.uib.no/en/lle>
> Visit Address:
> HF-bygget, Sydnesplassen 7
> 5020 Bergen
> Postal Address:
> Postboks 7805
> 5020 Bergen
> Phone:
> +47 55 58 97 63
> E-mail:
> Radhika.Gajjala at uib.no
> ____
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 6:45 AM, Peter Timusk <peterotimusk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello all
>>
>> I sent this off list to Gabriella Coleman in reply to her gender thread
>> e-mail and now see it may add a different view to this thread. I am middle
>> aged but 'fresh enough out of  a BA program' but not a teacher. I work
>> supporting government social science researchers or 'policy wonks' I think
>> you call them.
>>
>> Here is that reply.
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> I don't mean to mansplane just that I read on gender in my legal studies
>> BA at Carleton and focused on the Internet and computer crime topics as I
>> learned law. I would just add that in sci and tech sociology there is a
>> gender thread that can be found. There are studies of how boy and girls use
>> technology differently. You can go back to the scholars in the 1970's and
>> see analysis of gender in the high tech workplace too.
>>
>> I note that in doing my undergraduate BA at Carleton University in Ottawa
>> we were told we had to pay attention to gender and promote women in our
>> writing and that any sexist writing was grounds for expulsion. The McGill
>> law student's legal studies citation guide was used to allow us to
>> reference first names as an indicator of gender.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of sky c
>> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 10:08 PM
>> To: Jill Walker Rettberg
>> Cc: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Please Cite Women Academics
>>
>> I've also slowly been trying to correct the bad habits I developed during
>> my undergraduate and PhD studies, where most of the sources we were given
>> were white men.
>>
>> One thing I've noticed is that in many fields, the mainstream
>> perspectives are dominated by white men, and while digging deeper helps a
>> bit, it doesn't fully remedy the problem. Consciously trying to think about
>> what different perspectives might look like, and the key words associated
>> with that, sometimes helps: for example, if I'm mostly getting the same
>> demographic turn up in my searches, I'll try adding, "feminist" or
>> "postcolonial" or "decolonize" to my search. That, and similar approaches,
>> helps me turn up not just a different demographic of writers, but also
>> often very different perspectives.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2016-02-26 at 09:42 +0000, Jill Walker Rettberg wrote:
>>
>> > Janet Sternberg’s point that people don’t search carefully and
>> therefore miss key references means we need to think about how to make our
>> research searchable - we need to use the most likely search terms in titles
>> and abstracts of our publications.
>> >
>> > The first time I was recommended to do this was in 2014, and the
>> publisher said that deliberate use of likely search terms makes a huge
>> difference in how many people actually find books and book chapters. This
>> is a rather different way of thinking about how to title academic work than
>> we are used to, but one we should definitely be aware of. Of course, we
>> should also teach our students to search better, using related terms and
>> seeing what is referenced by other scholars on the topic.
>> >
>> > Also: we should all deliberately make sure to cite women and people of
>> colour in all our work. For the last few years, I have carefully looked at
>> my references as I write, and if there isn’t a pretty even gender balance,
>> I search harder to find women writing about the topic. I use Google Scholar
>> most, but I also ask other women in related areas if they know of other
>> women I should be aware of. I have ALWAYS found more women when I
>> specifically search, and they are usually doing fabulous stuff that has
>> been really helpful to my own work. And often they do not pop up when you
>> first start to explore an area. Not digging deeper means missing out on
>> really valuable work.
>> >
>> > Jill
>> >
>> > Jill Walker Rettberg
>> > Professor of Digital Culture
>> > Dept of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies University of
>> > Bergen
>> >
>> > Blog - http://jilltxt.net
>> > Twitter - http://twitter.com/jilltxt
>> > My book "Seeing Ourselves Through Technology: How We Use Selfies, Blogs
>> and Wearable Devices to See and Shape Ourselves" is out on Palgrave as an
>> open access publication - buy it in print or download it for free!
>> > http://jilltxt.net/books
>> >
>> > > On 26 Feb 2016, at 0:00 , Janet Sternberg wrote:
>> > >
>> > > 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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