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Gender and communication: problematizations, methodologies, intersections
2016 •
António Fernando Cascais
Gender/ Feminist/ Women’s Studies, as well as Gay, Lesbian and Queer Studies, in addition to some already well-established scientific areas in academic curricula – of which Cultural Studies and the Communication Sciences themselves are excellent examples – all have emerged from the classic domains of the Social Sciences and the Humanities. This emergence does not amount, however, to mere disciplinary specialization compelled by the real specificity of its objects that have gradually grown more differentiated and clear-cut. The disciplinary fragmentation at stake is a thematic and methodological one, as it constructs news forms of questioning rather than well-defined objects, and emphasizes intersections rather than separatisms. It therefore acquires an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary character, in such a sense that interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity are not boiled down to mere mechanical cooperation between established disciplines; rather, they have forged critical ...
Gender and Communication: Problemizations, methodologies, intersections - Gender in focus: (new) trends in media
António Fernando Cascais
Studies in Communication Sciences
Re-booting gender in communication research and practice: a translational approach. ECREA 2018 special panel report
2020 •
Claudia Padovani
The special panel “Re-booting gender in communication research and practice: a translational approach” comprised a group of colleagues who are working together on two different projects around gender equality in the media, along with a contributor from the European Institute for Gender Equality. The panel responded to the conference theme in several ways, not least by placing gender equality front and centre as an important but often neglected element of media policy and practice. We argue that issues of gender are located at both the centre and the periphery of media and communication research in terms of content (representation), production (employment), policy (structure) and ownership (political economy). While all these aspects have been topics of significant research interest over the past few decades, a consideration of the ways in which gender is a differentiating feature of media content and media practice has often been a glaring omission in research design.
Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture
New questions and themes in studying gender and communication
2012 •
Claudia Alvares
BUONANNO, M. (2014). “Gender and media studies: progress and challenge in a vibrant research field”. Anàlisi. Quaderns de Comunicació i Cultura, 50, p. 5-25. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7238/a.v0i50.2315 Abstract
Gender and media studies: progress and challenge in a vibrant research field
Milly Buonanno
Gender and media studies has witnessed in recent years a resounding revival, as is testified by number of published monographs and collections, articles, themed issues of international journals, conferences that bring into focus the diverse features of the relationship between gender and communication. The field has gone through an ebb and flow process over time, since it began to take shape inside the academia in early seventies, under the determining influence of the second-wave feminism, which had made the media a primary object of inquiry and criticism. Actually feminism, its waves and shifts and multiple voices, is a major factor to be considered –alongside equally shiftings conceptual frameworks and methodological tools underpinning research and analysis, and the changing media contexts and contents– in order to account for the constitution and development of the gender and media scholarship. This paper is aimed at drawing an overview of such a history, through a narrative of change and continuity that strives to render how the field has come to be configured and reconfigured over time, and has readjusted its mode of engagement with the fundamental challenge of disclosing and understanding the gendered and gendering dimensions of the media discourses and practices. More focus will be put on the strands of the vibrant debate that enlivens the current revival, much informed by competing ideas as regards gender and media in a postfeminist and media-saturated cultural environment. Keywords: gender, media, images of women, feminism, post-feminism
Feminist Approaches to Media Theory and Research, Harp, Loke & Bachman (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan
Feminism, Theory and Communication.pdf
2018 •
Carolyn M Byerly
The chapter brings renewed attention to the important role and building of theory in women-and-media communication research, particularly mediated communication, where public discourse occurs and where – for better or worse – messages and representations appear that serve to help to construct gendered selves and their understandings of the world. The discussion reviews the definitions of feminist communication theory, traces its development over the years, identifies distinct positionalities among feminist scholars, sets forth key debates and critiques, and calls for greater attention to both the building and naming of feminist communication theories.
Journal of Communication
The State of the Art in Feminist Scholarship in Communication
2005 •
Bonnie Dow
Sociology Compass
Feminist and Gender Media Studies: A Critical Overview
2008 •
Kaitlynn Mendes
This paper offers a general overview of past, current, and developing issues and debates in the growing field of gender and feminist media studies. Its main aim is to provide for those who are new to the field, as well as advanced students and researchers, a broad sense of what is now significant and important area of academic research. It engages with the differences and similarities between gender and feminist media studies, gendered communication systems, gendered news production, feminist methodologies and methods in communication research (textual, audience, and production based), the media's role in constructing gender, and gendered and feminist research by specific media form including advertising, magazines, film, television, news, radio, and the Internet and new media. The outline of research presented is not exhaustive; however, it attempts to trace certain significant developments in the field historically, conceptually, methodologically politically and trans-nationally.
Gender and Media Newsletter
Gender and Media Newsletter
2014 •
Dr. Nidhi Shendurnikar, Archana Chanuvai, Bhakti Patel, BUDHADITYA BANERJEE
Media and Communication for Gender and Development
Valentina Baú
All development issues have gender implications. Such implications occur in both public and private sphere. Much of the writing on gender and development has not addressed communication issues directly, while those in the communication sector have often examined communication in narrower contexts: for example, how communication strategies might be used to address issues that have a direct impact on women (i.e. health), how message design processes might include women’s participation, and so on (Einsiedel 1996). Many studies in the 1980s, some focusing on communication issues, documented women’s continued marginalisation and deteriorating status as a result of development. Anecdotes abound of unsuccessful projects whose planners have failed to consult with women and hence worsened their situation in the process (Steeves 2000). Although it still remains debatable whether the objectives of some gender and media development interventions are always attainable (Kamal 2007), this paper seeks to highlight that communication can in reality be an invaluable tool in raising awareness of and ultimately challenging gendered power structures. What needs to be recognised are the limitations that media can have when employed as a merely technical channel of communication. In order to utilise the media at their full potential, their use needs to be effectively incorporated within the planning of development interventions. This requires an examination of gender communication patterns within a community and an investigation of the issues that can be successfully tackled through media projects. Through an overview of the debate around gender and communication, and the presentation of case studies that offer examples and insights on media interventions in the context of gender, this paper shows the different impact that media can have on the social construction of gender.
