Recently, some have claimed that the English Wikipedia was "segregating" female novelists.
I don't follow the complexities of WP as closely as I once did but classification is one of those seemingly innocuous, nerdy things that is more difficult and profound than one would think. Geoffrey Bowker and Susan ...
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Godwin's feminist corollary: As an online discussion about sexism continues, the probability of a woman who speaks out being called a feminazi approaches 1.
Anita's irony: Online discussion of sexism or misogyny quickly results in disproportionate displays of sexism and misogyny.
I've long been fascinated by the ...
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Recently I've spoken about my paper Free as in Sexist? in a couple of places. I was happy to return to Jerry Brito's podcast "Surprisingly Free" to discuss the gender gap, Geek Feminism, Finally Feminism 101, the Ada Initiative, codes of conduct and the benefits of balanced participation ...
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One of the unexpected benefits of my research on geek feminism and the "gender gap" is to have met some fantastic people. I've been especially impressed by, and grateful for, Valerie Aurora's and Mary Gardiner's work at the Ada Initiative.
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It's always gratifying when people read something I've written and point out shortcomings or issues that could be further explored. (This is far superior to not being read at all -- and even receiving empty platitudes.) I also wish I could amend a publication with links to those responses ...
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I'm happy to note that a pre-print of Jeff Loveland's and my article on encyclopedic production is now available. Originally it was toll restricted and I planned to post a pre-submission author's draft, but happily the "full text" is now freely accessible.
Jeff Loveland and Joseph Reagle ...
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I don't often work on quantitative projects, but since publishing Gender Bias in Wikipedia and Brittanica with Lauren Rhue I've come to appreciate just how difficult it can be to communicate findings unambiguously. Of course, had we found that Wikipedia had no biographies of women that would be ...
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John Wallis' (short and accessible) thesis Destructive Editing and Habitus in the Imaginative Construction of Wikipedia challenges my perspective of Wikipedia as an actual community; a community in which stable, friendly, and collaborative relations can exist. He prefers to view Wikipedia as an "imagined community" of impersonal combatants in which ...
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First Monday's 200th issue is up (I first published there 17 years ago!) and includes "Free as in Sexist?: Free Culture and the Gender Gap".
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