Contemporary Research on Gender and Media: It’s All Political

Media and Communication

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Sofie Van Bauwel¹  Tonny Krijnen² 

[1] Department of Communication Sciences, Centre for Cinema and Media Studies, Ghent University;Department of Media and Communication, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam

关键词: #MeToo;    gender;    gender politics;    media;    post-feminism;    representation;   

DOI  :  10.17645/mac.v9i2.3997

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Cogitatio Press

【 摘 要 】

Recent global social changes and phenomena like #MeToo and Time’s Up Movement, the visibility of feminism in popularmedia (e.g., Beyonce or the TV series Orange is the New Black), the increase of datafication and fake news have not onlyput pressure on the media and entertainment industry and the content produced, but also generated critique, changeand questions in the public debate on gender in general and (the backlash on) gender studies around the world. But arethese phenomena also game changers for research on media and gender? In this thematic issue we want to provide insightin recent developments and trends in research on gender and media. What are the dominant ideas and debates in thisresearch field and how do they deal with all of the changes in the media scape (e.g., platformization, the dominance ofalgorithms and datafication, slacktivism, and gender inequalities in media production). Moreover, how do current debates,theoretical insights and methods communicate with those in the past? The research field has changed rapidly over the last10 years with repercussions on the conceptualisation of gender, its intersections with other identities markers (e.g., age,ethnicity, class, disabilities, sexualities, etc.), and media audiences’ responses to these developments. We welcome contributions within the scope of gender and media and which are topical in the way they introduce new concepts, theoreticalinsights, new methods or new research subjects.

【 授权许可】

CC BY