[ecrea] CFP: Gendered labour & media, Media International Australia

*Call for Papers*

*Media International Australia no. 161 (November 2016)*

*Gendered Labour and Media *

*Theme Editors: Jeannine Baker and Justine Lloyd*

While gendered divisions of labour persist in media industries, media
forms also constitute a new sphere of ‘work’ that reflect and refract
historical shifts in categories of gender.

The special issue’s focus on ‘gendered labour’ seeks to offer a new
perspective on the kinds of work that are central to media industries:
the diverse symbolic and transformative activities that are implicated
in the recognition of gender as a social category. In this vein, we
encourage contributors to explore media representation and production as
being intimately connected, rather than separate stages of linear
economic cycles.

This special issue of MIA will explore the following questions:

a) what is the role of gendered labour within media industries and
institutions?

b) how can we understand contemporary debates around this role from a
historical perspective?; and

c) how is gendered work mediated?

We are seeking contributions that:

  * Discuss media framing of paid and unpaid work in both historical and
    current contexts
  * Examine critical events and moments in women’s employment in media
    industries
  * Document media representations of disputes and struggles in
    female-based industries
  * Look at social media as tools for organizing around gender-based issues
  * Provide historical accounts of women’s work in particular programs
    and sectors (i.e. commercial, public service and community
    broadcasting, as well as new media industries, including gaming, etc.)
  * Consider intersectionality and the convergences of gender, class and
    racialization in working lives in media industries; and/or
  * Give accounts of representations of gendered labour in particular
    media forms (film, print, photography, radio, television, video
    games, etc.)

We are particularly interested in studies of these topics outside the
Australian context, or in a transnational setting.

Abstracts (150 words) are due to the editors by 15 January 2016.

Full articles (5000 words maximum) of accepted abstracts must be submitted
by 15 April 2016.

Abstracts and queries to: Justine Lloyd: (justine.lloyd /at/ mq.edu.au)
<mailto:(justine.lloyd /at/ mq.edu.au)> or Jeannine Baker:
(jeannine.baker /at/ mq.edu.au) <mailto:(jeannine.baker /at/ mq.edu.au)>


More information about MIA, which will now be published by Sage, can be
found here:
https://au.sagepub.com/en-gb/oce/media-international-australia/journal202478
and about the CFP here: http://www.uq.edu.au/mia/calls-for-papers

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