“I was alarmed and wanted to let the public know that there was this blog
out there that was defaming these female firefighters and medics, not only
Nicole but others as well.”
http://www.statter911.com/2016/04/23/sexist-lurid-online-comments-come-ligh…
[The website's curator] told Fox that he thought [fire chief] Bowers’s
statement were a “deflection of blame.” He said that he has previously
taken comments down because of complaints or a court order he received last
year for remarks about another female firefighter. [He] said that he wants
his site’s users to see “the nasty truth.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/virginia-calls-site-downafter-fire…
>From Berkeley School of Information,"Toward a gender-inclusive internet:
countering harassment, revenge porn, threats and online abuse", [1] a panel
that was streamed yesterday is now online. Panelists were: Patrick Earley,
Sahar Habib Ghazi, Lena Gunn, Leslie Harris, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, Erica
Johnstone, Jen King, and Tonya Mosley [2]
Websites mentioned by the panel: "Without my consent, tools to fight
internet harassment" [3], "Sidewalk stories", Egyptian group against street
harassment [4], "Hollaback" - street harassment [5], "Heartmob" - internet
harassment [6],
A second streaming video from Berkman Center now posted, mostly copyright,
but some about privacy: Doctoral candidate Jon Penney talks about his
research " ...doctoral research explores regulatory chilling effects online
and is affiliated with the Takedown Project, a research collective studying
“notice and takedown”, and related regulatory systems globally, based at
the University of California (Berkeley) School of Law." [7] One case study
involves surveillance-related chilling effects and Wikipedia.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkOZsNZBWgg
[2]
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/2016-04-27-gender-incl…
[3] http://www.withoutmyconsent.org/
[4] https://www.facebook.com/sidewalkstoriesegy
[5] http://www.ihollaback.org/
[6] https://iheartmob.org/pages/about
[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u56GxZD9Mzg
Hello Everyone ,
i have submitted an Individual Engagement Grant
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG> to the Wikimedia Foundation
along with Lindsay Oliver another gender activist to study the absence of
women and non-cis editors in the US and South/SouthEast Asia.
The Missing Masses: Investigating the Absence of Women and Non-Cis People
Among Wikipedia Editors
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Missing_Masses:_Investigatin…>
We would be deeply grateful if you would review the grant and endorse it if
you approve . If you would like to provide feedback or suggestions, please
voice them on the talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/The_Missing_Masses:_Investi…>.
If there is anything you would like to directly discuss with us regarding
the grant, please feel free to send me an email.
Thank you!
Chinmayi S K
Guardian article "We will look back at cyber-harassment as a disgrace--if
we act now", by Danielle Citron.
Excerpt:
"Whether it is thanks to commercial interests or social responsibility,
some online platforms have taken a stand against cyber-harassment. Social
media providers, including Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter, now ban
threats, cyber-harassment, and non-consensual pornography....
"Companies should be clear about their policies. They need to explain what
they mean by “cyber-harassment”, “non-consensual pornography”, “threats”
and “bullying”. Users will then have a better understanding of precisely
what is and what is not prohibited. Platforms should explain whether
content will be taken down or what the next step would be."
No mention of Wikipedia.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/15/cyber-harassment-cyber…
Hi all,
I'm currently conducting some research on the experiences of self-identified women editors on English Wikipedia. Despite the studies and articles discussing how so few women edit, still very little is known about the experiences of women who actively edit English Wikipedia and their perceptions of the gender gap. The goal is to make these findings useful to the Wikimedia/Wikipedia community (and the broader public). (I also welcome feedback about creative ways to do this!)
I'm seeking interviews with self-identified women editors of English Wikipedia who have been actively editing for 2+ years. This interview would take place over Skype, phone, or email, and your involvement would be completely confidential (and much appreciated)! If you're interested in participating, please email me at mcdona51(a)purdue.edu.
If you'd like to learn more about the project, here's the link<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Beyond_the_Gender_Gap:_Understandi…> to the Wikipedia research page. And please feel free to ask me any questions!
Thanks!
Danielle
Research:Beyond the Gender Gap: Understanding Women's ...<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Beyond_the_Gender_Gap:_Understandi…>
meta.wikimedia.org
Existing research on the Wikipedia gender gap has provided insight into the broad landscape of Wikipedia editorship trends, although it has not examined the gender ...
Danielle McDonald Corple
Graduate Assistant, Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Brian Lamb School of Communication
Purdue University
Office: Beering 2167
The Gender Gap Task Force has a crowd-sourced list of gender gap articles
and research papers.[1] It would be helpful if we could get a librarian
involved with updating and cataloging the list across all languages.
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bia…
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
User:Rosiestep
Skype Rosiestep
Twitter @rosiestep
Hi everyone,
I am running currently a project in Switzerland dedicated to the gender gap. More information here (in French) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Suisse/Biographies_des_femmes_en_Suisse and here on the website of the University of Geneva: http://www.unige.ch/rectorat/egalite/evenement/actualites/wikipedia/
I had an interesting encounter on Twitter with an established Wikipedian who suggested that women bios and bios in general were not well received by the wikipedian community because of admissibility issues.
This person also suggested that addressing gender gap could not be fulfilled by just having women write bios, because this is addressing only the gender bias. He said writing bios did not help women address more complicated and technical subjects.
He wrote that limiting the gender gap to the gender bias is not enough.
Does anyone have a clue on this subject and/or informations, discussion feeds and papers of academic research?
I had the idea that gender gap had two aspects: contributor gap and subject gap. To me gender bias had more to do with the way sexist stereotypes introduces differences in the way an article is written: for e.g. women bios tend to be more focused on the marital life and less on the work achieved, less linked to other articles. Therefore the two concepts cannot so easily be separated and have a two way causality.
So I would really appreciate an exchange on this subject (sorry if it has been addressed before), and of the ways we can address the problem in effect, and not just in theory (especially when running an editing workshop or edit-a-thon). Do we have somme sort of best practices somewhere? A group devoted to this?
Kind regards,
Nattes à chat