Feminist Approaches to Media Theory and Research [electronic resource] /
Harp, Dustin.editor.
Loke, Jaime.editor.
Bachmann, Ingrid.editor.
Feminist Approaches to Media Theory and Research tackles the breadth and depth of feminist perspectives in the field of media studies through essays and research that reflect on the present and future of feminist research and theory at the intersections of women, gender, media, activism, and academia. The volume includes original chapters on diverse topics illustrating where theorization and research currently stand with regard to the politics of gender and media, what work is being done in feminist theory, and how feminist scholarship can contribute to our understanding of gender as a mediated experience with implications for our contemporary global society. It opens for discussion how the research, theory, and interventions challenge concepts of gender in mediated discourses and practices and how these fit into the evolving state of contemporary feminisms. Contributors engage with discussions about contemporary feminisms as they are understood in media theory and research, particularly in a field that has changed rapidly in the last decades with digital communication tools and through cross-disciplinary work. Overall, the book illustrates how the politics of gender operate within the current media landscapes and how feminist theorizing shapes academic inquiry of these landscapes.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Through a Feminist Kaleidoscope: Critiquing Media, Power, and Gender Inequalities -- 2. Feminism, Theory and Communication: Progress, Debates, and Challenges Ahead -- 3. The Applicability of Symbolic Annihilation in the Middle East -- 4. Sleeping with the Enemy: The Male Gaze and Same-Sex Relationships on Network Television -- 5. The Affective Turn in Feminist Media Studies in the Twenty-First Century -- 6. Girls, Media, and Sexuality: The Case for Feminist Ethics -- 7. Queer and Feminist Approaches to Transgender Media Studies -- 8. Feminist Perspectives to Sports Media: State of the Field -- 9. Online Framing on Abortion and Violence in South America: Dissonant Sense Making -- 10. States of Exception: Gender-Based Violence in the Global South -- 11. Bringing Race into Feminist Digital Media Studies -- 12. Conservative Women in Power: A New Predicament for Transnational Feminist Media Research -- 13. Gender and the Mediated Political Sphere from a Feminist Theory Lens -- 14. "Hashtag Feminism": Activism or Slacktivism? -- 15. Teaching Girls Online Skills for Knowledge Projects: A Research-Based Feminist Intervention -- 16. (Re)Writing Women's Lives: A Call for Media Scholars to Renew Their Efforts at Feminist Biography -- 17. The Intangible Stories of War Carpet.
Feminist Approaches to Media Theory and Research tackles the breadth and depth of feminist perspectives in the field of media studies through essays and research that reflect on the present and future of feminist research and theory at the intersections of women, gender, media, activism, and academia. The volume includes original chapters on diverse topics illustrating where theorization and research currently stand with regard to the politics of gender and media, what work is being done in feminist theory, and how feminist scholarship can contribute to our understanding of gender as a mediated experience with implications for our contemporary global society. It opens for discussion how the research, theory, and interventions challenge concepts of gender in mediated discourses and practices and how these fit into the evolving state of contemporary feminisms. Contributors engage with discussions about contemporary feminisms as they are understood in media theory and research, particularly in a field that has changed rapidly in the last decades with digital communication tools and through cross-disciplinary work. Overall, the book illustrates how the politics of gender operate within the current media landscapes and how feminist theorizing shapes academic inquiry of these landscapes.
Communication.
Culture.
Gender.
Journalism.
Digital media.
Media and Communication.
Culture and Gender.
Culture and Gender.
Journalism.
Digital/New Media.