Talk:Clemencia Rodriguez

[edit] concerning the notability notice

Started this entry, soon received notice "that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline for Biographies." Rewrote text right away to add citations and bring out notability element. I've recently completed a PhD dissertation on this area of communication research, including an extensive literature review and after 5 years of research and dozens of conferences attended, found Rodriguez' importance second only to John Downing's. I've confirmed this with numerous other scholars in the field. Her Fissures is considered one of the 2-4 seminal books that appeared around 2001 which helped spark the current wave of interest in alternative media reasearch, and one of the first to attempt critique and go beyond the simplistic alternative-mainstream dichotomy. Googlescholar does not accurately reflect the amount of research that cites her, as few are available online.

I would also point to the discussion around establishing 'importance' of academic researchers, especially the critique that the criteria for 'importance' have traditionally favor old men from first world countries (who tend to quote primarily other white men). If wikipedia is to be more relevant to what is going on in research, we'd better not wait until someone is dead to write about them, and take care not to exclude female researchers.

Finally, Wikipedia is dreadfully understocked in entries in media and communication reasearch- contrast this with entries in the natural sciences or popular culture. I would recommend approaching the leading associations of researchers in the field, IAMCR, ICA etc. for collaboration.

Bine maya 10:45, 16 November 2006 (UTC)