[Air-L] cyber security and gender

[Peter Timusk]

This is a really interesting application of gender + based analysis that
our government in Canada wants us public servant researchers to do. In
business statistics where I current work there is interest in cybersecurity
practices businesses use and at the same time interest in business owner
demographics with many countries really interested in female entrepreneurs.

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019, 12:20 Winifred Poster, <wrposter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Anja,
>
> I’ve written on this topic:
>
> "Cybersecurity Needs Women”, 2018.  Nature,
> https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-03327-w
>
> “Gender Trouble in Cyberwar:  Multiple Masculinities and Femininities of a
> Cyberspy in the War on Terror,” 2019.  Pp. 188-202 in Unsustainable
> Institutions of Men, edited by Jeff Hearn, Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila, and
> Marina Hughson.  London, UK:  Routledge.
>
> If you want to email me, I have some other papers I can send as well.
>
> _______________________________________
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> International Studies/International Affairs Program
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> > Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 11:21:49 +0200
> > From: Anja Venter <anjaventer at gmail.com>
> > To: List Aoir <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> > Subject: [Air-L] cyber security and gender
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> > Hello people of AoIR,
> >
> > Myself and colleagues are busy writing a paper on gendered differences
> > in cybersecurity awareness (aka how well resilient are they against
> > cybersecurity attacks) among ComSci and non-ComSci students at a South
> > African university, and our findings include awareness determined by
> gender
> > (mostly because the majority of ComSci students are cis male).
> >
> > I have three questions for those of you who explore these intersections:
> >
> > 1. Has anyone written about *describing* gender in this kind of research,
> > beyond the binaries. It is 2019 after all, and I don't think writing
> about
> > "male" and "female" participants isn't a very nuanced approach, despite
> the
> > gendered nature of the findings. Any literature to recommend?
> >
> > 2. Any literature on cybersecurity and gendered risks to recommend?
> >
> > 3. Are there any knowledge communities whose research we should be
> looking
> > at in terms of conferences, publications, research centers?
> >
> > Many thanks!
> > Anja
> >
> >
> > *Dr Anja Venter, PhD*
> > *Art-stronaut*
> >
> > *www.nannaventer.co.za <http://www.nannaventer.co.za>   *
> >
> > *+27 84 929 4647  *
> >
> > *@nannaventer*
> >
>
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