Gender and media: contribuciones a una comunicación con perspectiva de género desde el feminismo y su influencia en las políticas de igualdad

La investigación en comunicación con perspectiva de género surge en el contexto de la Segunda Ola del Feminismo en Estados Unidos por parte de investigadoras feministas que identificaron los contenidos sexistas de los medios de comunicación con un obstáculo al acceso de derechos de mujeres y a la construcción de sociedades más igualitarias. El objetivo de esta investigación es identificar a las mujeres investigadoras que contribuyeron a la creación de los estudios de la comunicación con perspectiva de género a través del análisis de sus publicaciones y poner en valor la influencia que dichos trabajos tuvieron en la creación de políticas de igualdad en el ámbito de los medios de comunicación. Para ello, se analizan alrededor de cien publicaciones realizadas entre 1963 y 1980 y se toma como referencia en políticas de igualdad y comunicación el punto J de la Plataforma de Acción de Beijing “Mujeres y medios de difusión”. Los resultados evidencian la relación entre los Women’s Studies y el origen del área de comunicación con perspectiva de género y la relevancia de la investigación en este campo de estudios como motor de generación de políticas igualdad y transformación social.

Comparing Gender and Media Equality across the Globe: A Cross-National Study of the Qualities, Causes and Consequences of Gender Equality in and through the News Media, Monika Djerf-Pierre and Maria Edstrom (eds) (2020)

Review of: Comparing Gender and Media Equality across the Globe: A Cross-National Study of the Qualities, Causes and Consequences of Gender Equality in and through the News Media, Monika Djerf-Pierre and Maria Edstrom (eds) (2020) Göteburg: Nordicom, 338 pp., ISBN 978-91-88855-33-6, p/bk, €28.00 ISBN 978-91-88855-32-9, PDF, €28.00 Available as Open Access at http://norden.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1502571/FULLTEXT02.pdf.

Representación de mujeres en noticias sobre violencia de género difundidas por televisión en Bolivia frente a las competencias mediáticas

The study analyzes the news content of three national television channels in Bolivia (one public and two private), where the treatment of news on gender violence is observed. The methodology proposed by Monitoreo Global de Medios, which addresses gender and media issues, is applied. At the same time, the dimensions of media literacy proposed by Ferrés and Piscitelli (2012) are analyzed in university women who observed the news broadcast on television. The findings show that there are more women (59.05%) than men (40.95%) as protagonists of the articles on gender violence, and that sexist stereotypes are reinforced in the presentation of the news. After applying the questionnaire to 200 university women, the technology dimension reached an advanced level (46.7%) based on knowledge of technological concepts and image processing software. However, the dimension of interaction processes has a high percentage of 59.5% at the basic level, as there is a lack of knowledge of the possibilities of acting critically in the face of violent content presented in the media.

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

Recent global social changes and phenomena like #MeToo and Time’s Up Movement, the visibility of feminism in popular media (e.g., Beyonce or the TV series <em>Orange is the New Black</em>), the increase of datafication and fake news have not only put pressure on the media and entertainment industry and the content produced, but also generated critique, change and questions in the public debate on gender in general and (the backlash on) gender studies around the world. But are these phenomena also game changers for research on media and gender? In this thematic issue we want to provide insight in recent developments and trends in research on gender and media. What are the dominant ideas and debates in this research field and how do they deal with all of the changes in the media scape (e.g., platformization, the dominance of algorithms 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 last 10 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, theoretical insights, new methods or new research subjects.