Sonification of women in sound and music computing - The sound of female authorship in ICMC, SMC and NIME proceedings

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Shanghai Conservatory of Music, 2017
2017
Engelska.
Ingår i: 2017 ICMC/EMW - 43rd International Computer Music Conference and the 6th International Electronic Music Week. - : Shanghai Conservatory of Music. - 9780984527465 ; , s. 233-238

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The primary goal of this study was to approximate the number of female authors in the academic field of Sound and Music Computing. This was done through gender prediction from author names for proceedings from the ICMC, SMC and NIME conferences, and by sonifying these results. Although gender classification by first name can only serve as an estimation of the actual number of female authors in the field, some conclusions could be drawn. The total percentage of author names classified as female was 10.3% for ICMC, 11.9% for SMC and 11.9% for NIME. When merging data from all three conferences for years 2004-2016, it could be concluded that names classified as female ranged from 9.5 to 14.3%. Changes in the ratio of female vs. male authors over time were further illustrated by sonifications, allowing the reader to explore, compare and reflect upon the results by listening to sonic representations of the data. The conclusion that can be drawn from this study is that the field of Sound and Music Computing is still far from being gender-balanced.

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