[ecrea] CfP: Beyond stereotypes--boys, girls, and their images

Call for papers:

The International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media, Nordicom

Call for submissions for a forthcoming book:

Beyond the stereotypes - Boys, girls, and their images

(working title)

Edited by Dafna Lemish and Maya Götz

The relationship that children and youth have with media around gender
related issues are complicated and intriguing. There is significant
scholarly research on representation of gender in media to suggest that
they play a role in perpetuating gender inequity and continue to
reinforce a segregated world for boys and girls. What we know less about
is how these representations influence the construction of gender
identities, particularly among children and youth from non- westernized
societies. Existing research in psychology, media studies and feminist
and cultural studies offer a host of possible explanations for the
dynamic relationships between media representations, personal identity,
and social reality, but a lot more research is required to enrich this
body of literature.

At the same time, there are many attempts worldwide for media
interventions and efforts to create counter-stereotypes and gender-fluid
representations that can enrich children’s understanding of what it
means to be a boy and what it means to be a girl. However, we know very
little on how effective these media texts are in stimulating change in a
world dominated by an historical gender inequity.

The purpose of this edited book, therefore, is to collect and highlight
research and document interventions from around the world dealing with
three major questions:

1.Chapters exploring conscious media efforts and interventions in
creating non-traditional gender representations for children and youth
of any age, in all countries.

2.Chapters exploring the influence and consequences of exposure to
gender representations – both traditional as well as counter-traditional
– on children and youth of any age, in all countries.

3.Chapters exploring educational interventions in the development of
gender-media literacy for children and youth of any age, in all countries.

Submissions from all stakeholders are encouraged: researchers, media
professionals, educators, advocacy groups, policy makers, and the like.

Please send *an abstract of up to one page with a brief bio note of the
author/s by March 15, 2016* to Dafna Lemish, co-editor,
(dafnalemish /at/ siu.edu) <mailto:(dafnalemish /at/ siu.edu)>.   All inquiries should
be addressed to Dafna as well. Authors will be notified by May 1^st ,
2016 of whether their proposed contribution has been invited for
submission for the special issue.

*Final manuscripts will be due on October 15, 2016*.

Contributions can range in length up to approximately 4000 words, in
either British or American English, confirming to APA style.

Invitation to submit a full chapter does not constitute a guarantee of
publication. All contributions will be reviewed by the editors and
reviews will be sent back by January 15^th , 2017. Revisions, if
necessary, will be due by April 1^st , 2017.

*Publication date*: December, 2017 with official launch during the 8th
World Summit on Media for Children in Manchester, UK.

*About the editors:*

*Dafna Lemish*(Ph.D. Ohio State University, US, 1982) is Professor of
Communication, Dean of the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts
at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and founding editor of the
/Journal of Children and Media/. She is author and editor of numerous
books and articles on children, media and gender representations
including most recently: /Children and Media: A Global Perspective
/(Wiley, 2015)/; The Routledge International Handbook on Children,
Adolescents and Media /(Routledge, 2013); and /Screening Gender on
Children’s Television: The Views of Producers around the World
/(Routledge, 2010).

*Maya Götz*(Ph.D. University of Kassel, Germany, 1998) is Head of the
International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television
(IZI) at the Bayerischer Rundfunk (i.e., Bavarian Broadcasting
Corporation) in Munich, Germany and the head of the Prix Jeunesse
Foundation. She is author and editor of numerous books and articles on
children, youth and televisionincluding most recently in English
language: /TV-hero(in)es of boys and girls/(Peter Lang, 2014).

             Together, Dafna and Maya have collaborated on numerous
projects and published to date the following books:

             Götz, M. & Lemish, D. (Eds.) (2012). /Sexy girls, heroes
and funny losers: Gender representations in children´s TV around the
world. /New York: Peter Lang.

Lemish, D. & Götz, M. (Eds.) (2007). /Children and media in times of war
and conflict/. Newark, NJ: Hampton Press.

Götz, M. Lemish, D. Aidman, A., & Moon, H. (2005). /Media and the/
/make-believe worlds of children: When Harry Potter meets Pokémon in
Disneyland/. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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