[ecrea] Call for Papers: Communication Papers Special Issue Women, Media & Politics

CALL FOR PAPERS
Communication Papers. Media Literacy & Gender Studies
Monographic Issue: "Women, Media & Politics"
No 2, December 2014
Submission Deadline: November 15th, 2014


Communication Papers journal invites submissions for its next 
monographic issue whose current title is "Women, Media & Politics".

How are women politicians represented in the media? A significant amount 
of research suggests that the press covers men and women politicians 
differently. There is a host of evidence suggesting that women 
politicians are framed in certain ways that differ from their male 
counterparts, and that those frames often put them at disadvantage. 
Women receive lower, less prominent and less substantive coverage than 
do men. Women’s viability as election contenders is often framed more 
negatively than men’s. News reports on women leaders tend to focus on 
personal appearance rather than on policy issues. Media refer to women 
more informally than men. Women are more likely to have their titles 
(such as Senator or Representative) dropped in news stories, and they 
are more often referred to by their first names or as ‘Ms.’ or ‘Mrs.’ 
than are men. Women politicians are also more likely to be described in 
terms of the personal traits associated with traditional ‘female’ 
stereotypes. The press discusses “female” issues more frequently when 
covering women politicians and reports “male” issues more extensively 
with men politicians. Media tend to use more highly charged language to 
report the speech of female politicians, and women are directly quoted 
less often than her male opponents.



Because the media have become the public sphere in which the identity of 
the politician is constructed, those gender biases can have electoral 
consequences. Gender differences in media coverage may influence women’s 
participation in public life, voters’ evaluations of male and female 
candidates, candidates’ choice of campaign strategies, and people’s view 
regarding women’s role in the political arena.



Some research also suggests that the increase in the access of women to 
political office should arguably result in a normalization of the 
representation of women politicians in the media coverage. If women and 
men have comparable access to positions of power, if women access the 
highest offices, should not this mean the disappearance of existing 
stereotyping gender roles?



TOPICS



· gender differences in news coverage of male and female politicians,

· media gender bias in political campaigns,

· comparative studies on gender differences in political campaigns,

· deconstructing gender stereotypes in political advertisements of women 
candidates,

· conventional frames employed by the media about women candidates for 
office,

· the portrayal of women in power (eg. Prime Ministers, Presidents, 
Cabinets Members, Members of the Parliament),

· original research about the representation of women politicians in 
social networking sites,

· the role of the media in shaping an ideal of women in politics,

· media discourse about power from a gender perspective,

· representation of femininities in media political texts,

· the relationship between gender, sex and heteronormativity in media 
political texts,

· audience perception of women leadership ability,

· women politicians representation from a post-feminist perspective,

· intersectional approaches to the study of women politicians 
representation (how it is affected by other structures such as class, 
race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation).



STANDARS OF SUBMISSION

Only original and unpublished proposals will be considered. Articles 
must respect the rules of APA style. Each manuscript should be between 
7,000 and 8,500 words in main text and 200 words in abstract. All 
submissions will be blind-refereed.  Complete manuscripts should be 
ready for peer review by November 15th. Publication is due for December 
2014. Submission in the web sites the manuscript by the standard 
template of the journal. Include one separate little page containing 
title, author/s, affiliation/s and the address, phone, and email of the 
lead author. Manuscripts can be written in Catalan, Eusquera, Spanish, 
English, Portuguese, French and Italian.

Please, submit manuscripts to the Communication Papers web site at: 
http://www.communicationpapers.es/

You can choose the language of the website (English, Spanish or Catalan) 
on the left vertical menu, in the "idioma" section.

You can download the standard template for articles in:

http://communicationpapers.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/cp_articulos_maq.doc



TIMELINE

· Submission Deadline: November 15th, 2014

· Date of Publication: December 19th, 2014


Please, feel free to circulate this call to other people that might have 
an interest to contribute.

Kind regards,

Nuria Fernandez-Garcia
(nurfergar /at/ gmail.com)
Scientific Coordinator Monographic 2, Communication Papers


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