EAGER: New Paths for Communicating Science

EAGER：传播科学的新途径

• 批准号: 1836072
• 负责人: Melissa Michelson
• 金额: $ 26.96万
• 依托单位: Menlo College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-08-15 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1836072&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; New; Paths; Communicating; Science

Despite the wide diversity of expertise in social science, women are underrepresented in scholarship and in news coverage of social science expertise. Men are more likely to be invited to talks, to have their work assigned on course syllabi, and to be contacted by the media for reactions to current events. But many social science experts are women; they are simply not as visible or well-known, and it is easier for those seeking expertise to call on those scholars with whom they are already familiar. Reducing this implicit bias against women requires positive steps to make the expertise of women more visible and easily accessible. The Women Also Know Stuff (WAKS) project does exactly that. Created in February 2016, the Women Also Know Stuff initiative is working to make it easier for scholars and journalists to identify experts who are women, through a website of women experts and an active Twitter feed. Women Also Know Stuff has worked for the past 20 months to populate and publicize a crowd-sourced online database that highlights the expertise of women scholars. The Women Also Know Stuff Editorial Board collects and manages this information with the goal of promoting women's public and professional engagement. This project will allow women listed on the website to give citations of 1) peer-reviewed published journal articles and books and 2) media interviews, by allowing them to check boxes for relevant subject areas (e.g., conflict studies, international relations) next to each citation. Icons (e.g., stars) next to the names of scholars will indicate if they have provided a linked citation for a given subject area. This system of linked citations and icons will allow users of the website to narrow their searches to only those scholars who have citations listed for publications and/or media interviews in the subject area of interest. This quality control feature will also encourage women scholars to be more attentive to their profiles on the website, thus making it more likely that they will list (and provide relevant linked citations to their work on) topics in the news, thus increasing its relevance for media users and the likelihood that news outlets will contact women scholars for comment on current events. In sum, adding these quality control icons will both improve the usefulness of the website and also increase its utilization.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

尽管社会科学领域的专业知识千差万别，但在学术和有关社会科学专业知识的新闻报道中，女性的代表性不足。男性更有可能被邀请参加演讲，在课程大纲上分配他们的工作，并被媒体联系以了解对时事的反应。但许多社会科学专家都是女性；她们只是不那么引人注目或不那么出名，对于那些寻求专业知识的人来说，更容易找到那些他们已经熟悉的学者。要减少这种对妇女的隐性偏见，就需要采取积极步骤，使妇女的专门知识更显眼，更容易获得。女性也知道东西(WAKS)项目就是这样做的。成立于2016年2月的女性知情倡议还致力于让学者和记者更容易通过女性专家网站和活跃的Twitter订阅来识别女性专家。女性还知道，在过去的20个月里，Things一直在努力填充和宣传一个众包在线数据库，该数据库突出了女性学者的专业知识。妇女知识编辑委员会还收集和管理这些信息，目的是促进妇女的公共参与和专业参与。该项目将允许网站上列出的妇女提供1)同行评审发表的期刊文章和书籍以及2)媒体采访的引用，方法是允许她们在每个引用旁边勾选相关主题领域(例如，冲突研究、国际关系)的复选框。学者名字旁边的图标(例如星号)将表明他们是否为给定的主题领域提供了链接的引文。这一链接引文和图标系统将允许网站用户将他们的搜索范围缩小到那些在感兴趣的主题领域的出版物和/或媒体采访中列出引文的学者。这一质量控制功能还将鼓励女学者更多地关注她们在网站上的个人资料，从而使她们更有可能在新闻中列出主题(并提供与其工作相关的链接引文)，从而增加其与媒体用户的相关性，并增加新闻机构联系女学者就时事发表评论的可能性。总而言之，添加这些质量控制图标既可以提高网站的有用性，也可以提高其利用率。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Women Also Know Stuff: Meta-Level Mentoring to Battle Gender Bias in Political Science

• DOI: 10.1017/s1049096517000580
• 发表时间: 2017-07-01
• 期刊: PS-POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICS
• 影响因子: 3.3
• 作者: Beaulieu, Emily;Boydstun, Amber E.;Wolbrecht, Christina
• 通讯作者: Wolbrecht, Christina