[SIGCIS-Members] “Please Read the Article”? Please Cite Women Academics.

[Andrew Meade McGee]

Thank you for sharing this article and your response, Prof. Alper, and for
bringing this issue to wider attention.

--Andrew

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Andrew Meade McGee
Corcoran Department of History
University of Virginia
PO Box 400180 - Nau Hall
Charlottesville, VA 22904

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Subramanian, Ramesh Prof. <
Ramesh.Subramanian at quinnipiac.edu> wrote:

> Thank you for this, Meryl. I have posted this on the Yale ISP mail list -
> which means hundreds of affiliated fellows will at least know about this!
>
> 'Best,
> -Ramesh
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ramesh Subramanian, Ph.D.
> Gabriel Ferrucci Professor of Computer Information Systems
> Quinnipiac University
> Hamden, CT 06518.
> Phone: 203-582-5276
> Email:rameshs at quinnipiac.edu
> Web:
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> &
> Fellow, Yale Law School - Information Society Project
> New Haven, CT 06511
> Email: ramesh.subramanian at yale.edu
> Web: http://www.law.yale.edu/intellectuallife/9841.htm
> ________________________________
> From: Members [members-bounces at lists.sigcis.org] on behalf of Meryl Alper
> [m.alper at neu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 12:27 PM
> To: members at lists.sigcis.org
> Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] “Please Read the Article”? Please Cite Women
> Academics.
>
> Hi all,
>
> Over the weekend, journalist Fred Kaplan published an article in the New
> York Times, entitled "'WarGames' and Cybersecurity's Debt to a Hollywood
> Hack" (
> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/movies/wargames-and-cybersecuritys-debt-to-a-hollywood-hack.html?_r=0
> <
> https://websitecheck.quinnipiac.edu/canit/urlproxy.php?_q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5ueXRpbWVzLmNvbS8yMDE2LzAyLzIxL21vdmllcy93YXJnYW1lcy1hbmQtY3liZXJzZWN1cml0eXMtZGVidC10by1hLWhvbGx5d29vZC1oYWNrLmh0bWw%2FX3I9MA%3D%3D&_r=cXVpbm5pcGlhYy1lZHU%3D
> >).
>
> The core argument -- that WarGames culturally influenced the Reagan
> administration's cyberpolicy -- sounded a great deal like communication
> scholar Stephanie Ricker Schulte's work.  When I brought this reference to
> Kaplan's attention on Twitter, he was super dismissive and minced my
> words.  So, naturally, I wrote a blog post about the incident, situating it
> within a broader trend of tech journalists (mostly men) minimizing the work
> of academics (mostly women), and capitalizing on this sin of omission in
> promoting their own books and other works:
> https://merylalper.com/2016/02/22/please-read-the-article-please-cite-women-academics/
> <
> https://websitecheck.quinnipiac.edu/canit/urlproxy.php?_q=aHR0cHM6Ly9tZXJ5bGFscGVyLmNvbS8yMDE2LzAyLzIyL3BsZWFzZS1yZWFkLXRoZS1hcnRpY2xlLXBsZWFzZS1jaXRlLXdvbWVuLWFjYWRlbWljcy8%3D&_r=cXVpbm5pcGlhYy1lZHU%3D
> >
>
> I'm really interested to know the thoughts of this community, both as one
> that knows the history of cyber law/policy inside and out, but one with
> many members committed to egalitarian principles.
>
> Best,
> Meryl
>
> --
> Meryl Alper
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Communication Studies
> Northeastern University
> Holmes 217
> m.alper at neu.edu<mailto:m.alper at neu.edu>
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> https://websitecheck.quinnipiac.edu/canit/urlproxy.php?_q=aHR0cDovL21lcnlsYWxwZXIuY29t&_r=cXVpbm5pcGlhYy1lZHU%3D
> >
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