How Do We Intervene in the Stubborn Persistence of Patriarchy in Communication Scholarship? (original) (raw)
Interventions: ICA Theme Book 2017
Taking our conversations at the 2017 conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) as our cue, we delve into the gendered patterns of authorship and citation in review articles written about the discipline. These review articles have proliferated via a publishing industry bent on selling handbooks. Using the standard methods used in other forms of gender network analysis, we focus on the citations in the first 100 articles of The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy, the ICA’s resource guide to the study of communication. Our data show strong disparities with regards to the number of women authors and articles about women’s scholarship as well as the citation of scholarly sources written by women in articles written by men. Based on the empirical evidence, we believe it is time for an intervention in communication scholarship. We suggest standards to enforce both personal and structural accountability. We want to make sure that violators of a feminist commitment to diversify our discipline be called on to make change happen, or else.
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