<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Meryl,</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you very much for this and for the post that you wrote. I read it earlier in the week, and I was really impressed --both by what you said and the fact that you said it.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Marie<br><br><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">______________________<br>Marie Hicks, Ph.D.<br>Asst. Professor, History of Technology<br>Illinois Institute of Technology<br>Chicago, IL USA<br><a href="http://mariehicks.net/" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">mariehicks.net</a> | <a href="mailto:mhicks1@iit.edu" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">mhicks1@iit.edu</a> | @histoftech</span></div><div><br>On Feb 24, 2016, at 11:27 AM, Meryl Alper <<a href="mailto:m.alper@neu.edu">m.alper@neu.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi all,<br><br>Over the weekend, journalist Fred Kaplan published an article in the New York Times, entitled "'WarGames' and Cybersecurity's Debt to a Hollywood Hack" (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/movies/wargames-and-cybersecuritys-debt-to-a-hollywood-hack.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/movies/wargames-and-cybersecuritys-debt-to-a-hollywood-hack.html?_r=0</a>). <br><br>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: <a href="https://merylalper.com/2016/02/22/please-read-the-article-please-cite-women-academics/">https://merylalper.com/2016/02/22/please-read-the-article-please-cite-women-academics/</a> <br><br>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.<br><br>Best,<br>Meryl<br></div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><b>Meryl Alper</b><br></div>Assistant Professor<br></div>Department of Communication Studies<br></div>Northeastern University<br></div><div>Holmes 217<br></div><div><a href="mailto:m.alper@neu.edu" target="_blank">m.alper@neu.edu</a><br></div></div><div><a href="http://merylalper.com" target="_blank">merylalper.com</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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