[ecrea] cfp - Gender and Media Revisited

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*Extended deadline!*

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*/Gender and Media Revisited/***

*Call for papers on special issue in peer reviewed journal MedieKultur*

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New submission deadline: October 15^th , 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 do not hesitate to contact the issue
editors:

Maja Rudloff: (mrudloff /at/ ruc.dk) <mailto:(mrudloff /at/ ruc.dk)>

Tobias Raun: (tobiasra /at/ ruc.dk) <mailto:(tobiasra /at/ ruc.dk)>

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

More information on the journal and submissions can be found here:

http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur/index



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