[ecrea] CFP from Teaching Media Quarterly: Teaching Intersectionality and Media

From Caroline Bayne <(bayne016 /at/ UMN.EDU)>

Call for Lesson Plans:

Teaching Intersectionality and Media

/Teaching Media Quarterly/ is interested in how instructors teach the 
concept of intersectionality as an analytical tool for understanding 
media images, messages, platforms, production, fandom, audiences, etc. 
Additionally, we are interested in the ways instructors engage 
critically with media to assist students’ understanding of 
intersectionality and their examination of their own positionality.

Intersectionality is a term coined by Critical Race theorist, 
KimberléCrenshaw and has been employed and expanded on by other 
prominent feminists of color like Patricia Hill Collins and bell hooks. 
Intersectionality insists that we examine relations of power and 
oppression through a lens that acknowledges the various aspects of 
social identities that work together to establish or intensify relations 
of inequality. Intersectionality calls for reflexivity and awareness of 
our own social positions. In the context of analyzing media, it 
encourages an interrogation of media that acknowledges the intersecting 
gender, class, and racial dimensions of media representations, or what 
Hill Collins calls “controlling images.” Scholars and students of media 
studies may also use it to understand other cultural phenomena such as 
sexualization in media content or participation in online spaces. 
Overall, intersectionality is an important concept for thinking 
critically about various aspects of our media culture.

We are interested in lesson plans that are informed by, but not limited 
to, the following questions:

·How does intersectionality illuminate racial and class specificities in 
representations of masculinity, femininity, sexuality, etc.?

·How can intersectionality be used as a lens for understanding audiences?

·How can intersectionality be used to understand media history?

·How do the evolving media systems and platforms create or limit the 
space for intersectional cultural critiques?

·How can we use intersectionality to interrogate the production and 
political economy of media?

·How can we engage with intersectionality through media production or 
participation in mediated spaces?

·How can intersectionality inform media research methods?

Submission Deadline: December 1, 2017

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