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
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