Communication & Media
Feminist and Gender Media Studies: A Critical Overview
By and , Cardiff University (October 2008)
Section: Communication & Media
Subjects: Sociology, Sociology of Media, Sociology of Culture and Media, Sociology of Popular Culture.
Abstract
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.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2008.00158.x
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