[Wiki-research-l] Fwd: Upcoming talk at the Berkman Center on the gender gap and Internet use skills
Begin forwarded message: From: aaron shaw aarons...@northwestern.edu Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:52:02 -0600 Subject: Upcoming talk at the Berkman Center on the gender gap and Internet use skills I wanted to pass along the details of an upcoming talk that Eszter Hargittai and I will be doing at the Berkman Center on Tuesday 1/21. We will present preliminary findings of work-in-progress on the relationship between the Wikipedia gender gap and people's internet skills. You can stream the talk online or attend in-person (if you happen to be in the Boston area). More details and an RSVP form are available on the Berkman Center website: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/01/hargittai-shaw All the best, Aaron [January 21] Internet Skills and Wikipedia's Gender Inequality with Eszter Hargittai and Aaron Shaw, Northwestern University January 21, 2014 at 12:30pm ET Berkman Center for Internet Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor RSVP required for those attending in person via the form This event will be webcast live (on this page) at 12:30pm ET. Although women are just as likely as men to read Wikipedia, they only represent an estimated 16% of global Wikipedia editors and 23% of U.S. adult Wikipedia editors. Previous research has focused on analyzing aspects of current contributors and aspects of the existing Wikipedia community to explain this gender gap in contributions. Instead, we analyze data about both Wikipedia contributors and non-contributors. We also focus on a previously ignored factor: people’s Internet skills. Our data set includes a diverse group of American young adults with detailed information about their background attributes, Internet experiences and skills. We find that the gender gap in editing is exacerbated by a similarly important Internet skills gap. By far the most likely people to contribute to Wikipedia are males with high Internet skills. Our findings suggest that efforts to overcome the gender gap in Wikipedia contributions must address the Web-use skills gap. Future research needs to look at why high-skilled women do not contribute at comparable rates to highly-skilled men. ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
Re: [Wiki-research-l] Fwd: Upcoming talk at the Berkman Center on the gender gap and Internet use skills
Looks very interesting! Somewhat related: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2013/November#Non-participation_of_female_students_on_Wikipedia_influenced_by_school.2C_peers_and_lack_of_community_awareness On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Dario Taraborelli dtarabore...@wikimedia.org wrote: Begin forwarded message: *From: *aaron shaw aarons...@northwestern.edu Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:52:02 -0600 Subject: Upcoming talk at the Berkman Center on the gender gap and Internet use skills I wanted to pass along the details of an upcoming talk that Eszter Hargittai and I will be doing at the Berkman Center on Tuesday 1/21. We will present preliminary findings of work-in-progress on the relationship between the Wikipedia gender gap and people's internet skills. You can stream the talk online or attend in-person (if you happen to be in the Boston area). More details and an RSVP form are available on the Berkman Center website: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/01/hargittai-shaw All the best, Aaron [January 21] Internet Skills and Wikipedia's Gender Inequality with Eszter Hargittai and Aaron Shaw, Northwestern University *January 21, 2014 at 12:30pm ET Berkman Center for Internet Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd Floor* *RSVP required for those attending in person via the form http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2014/01/hargittai-shaw#RSVP* *This event will be webcast live (on this page) at 12:30pm ET.* Although women are just as likely as men to read Wikipedia, they only represent an estimated 16% of global Wikipedia editors and 23% of U.S. adult Wikipedia editors. Previous research has focused on analyzing aspects of current contributors and aspects of the existing Wikipedia community to explain this gender gap in contributions. Instead, we analyze data about both Wikipedia contributors and non-contributors. We also focus on a previously ignored factor: people’s Internet skills. Our data set includes a diverse group of American young adults with detailed information about their background attributes, Internet experiences and skills. We find that the gender gap in editing is exacerbated by a similarly important Internet skills gap. By far the most likely people to contribute to Wikipedia are males with high Internet skills. Our findings suggest that efforts to overcome the gender gap in Wikipedia contributions must address the Web-use skills gap. Future research needs to look at why high-skilled women do not contribute at comparable rates to highly-skilled men. ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l -- Tilman Bayer Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
[Wiki-research-l] OpenSym (WikiSym) 2014 Call for Papers
OpenSym (WikiSym) 2014, the 10th International Symposium on Open Collaboration, http://opensym.org/os2014 August 27-29, 2014 | Berlin, Germany About the Conference The 10th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym 2014) is the premier conference on open collaboration research, including wiki and social media, Wikipedia, free, libre, and open source software, open data, open access, and IT-driven open innovation research. OpenSym is the first conference series to bring together the different strands of open collaboration research, seeking to create synergies and inspire new research between computer scientists, social scientists, legal scholars, and everyone interested in understanding open collaboration and how it is changing the world. OpenSym 2014 will be held in Berlin, Germany, on August 27-29, 2014. OpenSym is held in-cooperation with ACM SIGWEB and ACM SIGSOFT and the conference proceedings will be archived in the ACM digital library like all prior editions. Research Track Call for Submissions === The conference provides peer-reviewed research tracks on * Free, libre, and open source software research, chaired jointly by Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona and Gregorio Robles of Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. For the call for papers please see http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/research-track-calls/open-source/ * Open data research, chaired by Ina Schieferdecker of Fraunhofer FOKUS and Free University of Berlin. For the call for papers please see http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/research-track-calls/open-data/ * IT-driven open innovation research, chaired by Kathrin Möslein of Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. For the call for papers please see http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/research-track-calls/open-innovation/ * Wikipedia research, chaired by Nicolas Jullien of Telecom Bretagne (University). For the call for papers please see http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/research-track-calls/wikipedia/ * Wikis and open collaboration research, chaired by Brent Hecht of University of Minnesota. For the call for papers please see http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/research-track-calls/open-collab-wikis/ Research papers present integrative reviews or original reports of substantive new work: theoretical, empirical, and/or in the design, development and/or deployment of novel concepts, systems, and mechanisms. Research papers will be reviewed by a research track program committee to meet rigorous academic standards of publication. Papers will be reviewed for relevance, conceptual quality, innovation and clarity of presentation. Each track has its own submission site, which you can find at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2014. Please select the appropriate track. Submission deadline is April 20th, 2014. Authors, whose submitted papers have been accepted for presentation at the conference have a choice of having their paper become part of the official proceedings, archived in the ACM Digital Library, having no publication record at all but only the presentation at the conference. For more information, please see http://www.opensym.org/os2014/submission/paper-types/ OpenSym seeks to accommodate the needs of the different research disciplines it draws on. Doctoral Symposium Call for Submissions === OpenSym seeks to explore the synergies between all strands of open collaboration research. Thus, we will have a doctoral symposium, in which Ph.D. students from different disciplines can present their work and receive feedback from senior faculty and their peers. The Doctoral Symposium has its own submission site, which you can find at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2014. Please select the Doctoral Symposium track. Submission deadline is June 1st, 2014. Community Track Call for Submissions OpenSym is also seeking submissions for experience reports (long and short), tutorials, workshops, panels, non-research posters, and demos. Such work accepted for presentation or performance at the conference is considered part of the community track. It will be put into the proceedings in a community track section; authors can opt-out of the publication, as with research papers. The community track its own submission site, which you can find at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensym2014. Please select the Community track. The first submission deadline is May 7th, 2014. A second submission deadline for late-comers (at the risk of not getting a seat) is June 15th, 2014. The OpenSym Conference Experience = OpenSym 2014 will be held in Berlin on August 27-29, 2013. Research and community presentations and performances will be accompanied by keynotes, invited speakers, and
