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Tue Jun 28 11:37:46 GMT 2016
Comunicazione Politica - COMPOL, the leading Italian academic journal in
Political Communication, opens a call for article for a special issue
about "Gender, politics and the media. Lessons learned and struggles for
change twenty years after the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women"
(_deadline July 30)._
The full text of the call for proposals is available below or online on
the journal website (click on the english flag on the top right of the
page): https://www.mulino.it/riviste/issn/1594-6061
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Title:
*Gender, politics and the media.*
*Lessons learned and struggles for change twenty years after the Beijing
Fourth World Conference on Women*
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Guest editors
Claudia Padovani (University of Padova, Italy) and Elena Pavan (Scuola
Normale Superiore, Italy)
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_Deadline for Abstracts: 30 July 2016_
Notifications of acceptance: 15 September 2016
Deadline for accepted full papers submission: 15 November 2016
Review process: November 2017-February 2017
Final version accepted papers due: 30 March 2017
Publication of the special issue: September 2017
The year 2015 was an important time for reviving global public attention
on gender and media issues. The twentieth anniversary of the Beijing
Fourth World Conference on Women invited an assessment of the progress
made since 1995, and a new emphasis was placed on the commitment made by
the international community on that occasion to “Increase the
participation and access of women to expression and decision-making in
and through the media and new technologies of communication” as well as
to “ Promote a balanced and non-stereotyped portrayal of women in the
media” (Section J of the Beijing Platform for Action).
In this context, initiatives oriented to gender equity in and through
the media are increasing. For example, in 2014, UNESCO launched a
/Global Alliance for Media and Gender/ to gather the knowledge,
competences and energies centred around gender-aware media operations
across all world regions. Moreover, in 2015, UN Women fostered a
partnership with leading media houses, the /Media Compact/, to galvanize
attention and develop concrete actions to promote women’s rights and
gender equality.Meanwhile, at the national level, forward-looking media
organizations, particularly public service broadcasters and professional
associations, are developing good practices to better support women’s
career aspirations as journalists and communicators; while civil society
organizations have consolidated mechanisms to monitor and assess media
operations from a gender perspective, as demonstrated by the worldwide
participation in the 5^th edition of the Global Media Monitoring Project
(GMMP).
The politics of communication seem to be gradually, though slowly and at
uneven pace, evolving towards more gender-aware approaches: media
outlets and their policies, at the national and regional levels, are
under scrutiny in relation to their responsiveness to gender equality;
political communication is also being transformed by the growing
presence and participation of women in political spaces and
policy-making roles, as well as by their use of less formal channels of
communication, including social media.
And yet in all world regions, the picture in 2016 remains one of unequal
gender and media relations. Women still find it hard to have their
concerns taken into consideration by the news media, or be recognized as
knowledgeable voices to represent professional groups and communities.
Also, new forms of gender discrimination and violence characterize the
digital environment and gender mainstreaming as an operational principle
for policy development in the media sector remains widely disregarded.
While the media landscape is being transformed and more opportunities
are offered to citizens and political actors to engage in public debates
and orientate policy developments, a persisting lack of equal
opportunities, particularly for women, still characterizes the content,
structures and operations of the media, both traditional and digital.
Twenty years after Beijing, *research on gender, politics, policies and
the media remains crucial to develop necessary knowledge* on the
contradictions and tensions that prevent gender equality in the media
from becoming a reality. Further studies are required to investigate
structural and cultural barriers, from the local to the supranational
level; new research is needed to develop comparative understandings of
the political, socio-cultural and discursive conditions that constrain
women’s specific competence and perspectives, and hamper opportunities
for change, especially those deriving from digital developments.
Given the above, this special issue seeks to bring together
contributions that reflect the *richness of scholarly approaches to
gender and media today, with a special focus on political and policy
developments*. Welcoming a wide range of analytical foci, research
questions, and methodologies, we invite theoretical, conceptual or
empirically-based contributions that address the following topics:
* the *disconnections* between gender concerns and media policies
(international and/or national): existing formal provisions and
actual media operations; policy discourses on the responsibilities
of the media in overcoming gender stereotypes and codes of conduct
or equality mechanisms adopted by media corporations; the potential
for diverse voices to speak and be heard in the digital space and
persisting challenges to women's communication rights in loosely
regulated domains;
* the role of *ideational elements* in media governance: frames,
discourses and norms that result in, and reflect, the historical
variability of gender (in)equality in the media;
* *good (and bad)**practices* in elaborating policy frameworks for
gender equality in the media, at both the national and the
individual company level, including the presence and participation
of women and men in decision-making and strategic orientation;
* *political communication *reconsidered: on language, content,
narratives and media usage from a gender perspective;
* *reframing divides*and emerging *policy responses: *“old
stereotypes” in the “new media”, barriers to access and relevant use
of ICTs, new forms of gender violence online, gender-neutral
technology design;
* principles, frameworks and practices of *gender-aware media
literacy*, training and career developments, and related policies;
* feminist approaches to *theorizing power* in media structures and
operations, and in fostering or resisting social change;
* new *analytical* and *empirical perspectives* to investigate
persisting gender-related cleavages by exploiting the potentialities
of emerging digital and computer-assisted research tools
*_Instructions for Authors_*: Authors interested in submitting a paper
to the special issue should send their abstracts (about 500 words, with
a tentative title) by email to the following email addresses by _July
30, 2016_ ((claudia.padovani /at/ unipd.it) <mailto:(claudia.padovani /at/ unipd.it)>,
(elena.pavan /at/ sns.it) <mailto:(elena.pavan /at/ sns.it)>, (compol.rivista /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(compol.rivista /at/ gmail.com)>).
Email subject: Special issue - Gender, politics and the media
ComPol publishes in Italian and English. Further information about the
journal and instructions for Authors can be found at:
https://www.mulino.it/riviste/issn/1594-6061.
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