[ecrea] Call for papers: Gender and Media Revisited

Peer reviewed journal MedieKultur invites submissions for an upcoming 
themed issue on media and gender.



Call for papers: Gender and Media Revisited



Submission deadline: September 1, 2015

Publication deadline: 2016



Editors Tobias Raun & Maja Rudloff, Roskilde University (guests), Anne 
Mette Thorhauge, University of Copenhagen (issue editor)



Media is among the most pervasive and powerful influences on our 
perceptions of gender(ed) identities and relations. Over the past 
decades, a growing body of research has demonstrated how the 
representation of gender in audiovisual mass media exerts significant 
influence on the ways in which we think about, experience and 
conceptualise gender (Berger 1972; Mulvey 1975; Pollock 1988; Doane 
1991; Dyer 1993; Hall 1997; Kaplan (ed.) 2000; Hirdman 2002; Gauntlett 
2002; Halberstam 2005; Kearney 2011; Giomi, Sansonetti & Tota 2013). 
With the evolution of communication technologies and the advent of 
so-called new media, including social and participatory media platforms, 
new research areas have developed concerning issues of gender 
representation/reception. It has been claimed that these new media 
formats and platforms facilitate new ways of negotiating personal and 
collective identities, offering democratic potential, not least for 
marginalised and underrepresented groups.



Further exploration is needed on the new kinds of (in)visibilities and 
opportunities that arise to create alternative spaces and 
representations for gender expressions. These include issues of 
inclusion, co-production and empowerment – and how the mediatization of 
communication affects local and global cultural gender imaginaries.



Whereas new media has without a doubt expanded and altered our everyday 
confrontation with and experience of mediated gender constructions, it 
is important to remember that the content of traditional, analogue and 
mass media has also undergone significant changes over the past decades. 
The question seems to be how and to what extent these changes manifest 
themselves. What new ‘queer’ gender identities access mainstream 
representation – and what new notions of masculinity, femininity and 
heterosexuality are formed within contemporary mass media?



In this issue of MedieKultur, we wish to explore the various ways in 
which gender and media intersect in the current mediascape, how media is 
influenced by and exerts influence over political, social and cultural 
aspects of gender construction and representation. In an increasingly 
media-convergent, media-saturated and globalised world, what (new) 
gender roles, new communication patterns, new representations, and new 
media genres and formats have emerged?



MedieKultur invites theoretical, methodological and empirical inquiries 
into the various intersections between media and gender in the 
contemporary media landscape. Topics and themes for articles can include 
but are not limited to:



- Media specific representations of gender today

- Media convergence: gender across media contexts

- Gendered use of social network services (SNSs)

- The gender politics of media industries and institutions

- Post-feminism: Still a relevant concept?

- Queer, trans, crip and critical race studies as fruitful analytical 
perspectives on contemporary media culture?

- Journalism and news media: global and local perspectives on gender and 
agenda setting

- Participatory and community media: To what extent do they have 
empowering, transformative potential?

- Gendered views on producers, contributors and consumers of media content.





For any queries or questions please don’t hesitate to contact the issue 
editors:

Anne Mette Thorhauge: (thorhaug /at/ hum.ku.dk)

Maja Rudloff: (mrudloff /at/ ruc.dk)

Tobias Raun: (tobiasra /at/ ruc.dk)



Read more about the journal MedieKultur here:

http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur?acceptCookies=1

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