[ecrea] CFP: Gender in Media Industries

*Gender Differentiation in Media Industries *

*International Conference, The Peace Institute and Faculty of Social 
Sciences, University of Ljubljana *

*Ljubljana, June 14-15, 2018 *

*Call for Papers *

In the last thirty years feminist media scholarship has analysed media 
systems as environments reproducing patriarchal structures that work 
against gender equality in the media. Results of research at the 
national and global scales have reported similar results: women are less 
likely to work in top managerial positions in the media, on the average 
women journalists are paid less than male, larger numbers of women are 
engaged in precarious jobs than their male counterparts. Similarly 
persistent are inequalities in media representation where portraying 
women is often rife with stereotypes and pursuant of imaginings of 
women’s domesticity. In addition, studies have shown how audiences have 
been constructed on perceptions that idealize women’s roles in the 
private sphere, reproducing women as consumers. Feminist media studies 
have long been based on the idea that women’s interests in the media are 
different that those of males. Consequently, research has demonstrated 
that women, when in leadership positions, can reform predominately 
masculine conventions or, in journalistic work, produce “different” 
news. Recently some scholars have been critical towards such “optimism” 
arguing that it contributes to naturalization of stereotypical gender 
roles, and have shown that women can work to reproduce the masculine 
newsroom culture same as males do.

This conference is interested to explore various dimensions of gender 
differentiation in contemporary media industry as they are reproduced at 
the level of media production, representation and consumption. The aim 
is in shifting the focus from researching relative underrepresentation 
of women in the media to analyse structures and practices of engendered 
media systems ˗ a shift from /what /to /why/. As a corpus of existing 
literature addressing gender in media at the “European periphery” is 
thinner if compared to studies elsewhere, we particularly welcome 
contributions addressing situations in Central-Eastern-South European 
countries (but not exclusively). We specifically target studies 
addressing gender in television and online media (but are not limited to 
these). 2

In particular, we are interested in contributions addressing:

- Feminization of media work,

- Media work environments and gender roles,

- Media policy from a gender perspective,

- Epistemologies addressing gender and media (political economy of 
communication, cultural studies, feminist analysis etc.),

- Attempts at reconciliation between “material” and “cultural” analysis,

- Gender representation in media texts,

- Intersectionality approach and masculinity studies in media system 
analysis,

- Gender differences in imagining audiences,

- Gender and media consumption.

We are interested in all of the above, and wish for the conference to 
cover various topics. We also hope to attract a diverse range of 
participants, from a variety of countries and backgrounds. There is no 
fee for attending and participating at the conference. The conference 
language is English.

Proposals for papers should include author’s/authors’ name, 
institutional affiliation, email address, together with a paper title, 
*abstract of 300 words *and a short biographical information. See below 
how to prepare an abstract for this conference.

Proposals should be sent by *January 19 *to 
(mojca.frelih /at/ mirovni-institut.si) and (mojca.pajnik /at/ mirovni-institut.si)

Notification of acceptance by *March 2 *

Full papers must be sent by *May 11 *

We plan to look for possibilities to publish papers, presented at the 
conference.

This conference is organized as part of the research project /Gender 
Differentiation in Media Industry /funded by the Slovenian Research 
Agency. 
http://www.mirovni-institut.si/en/projects/gender-differentiation-in-media-industry/ 


Intermediary result of the project have recently been published in the 
journal /Teorija in praksa/, vol. 54, no. 3-4, English abstracts (pp. 
702-704) available at 
https://www.fdv.uni-lj.si/docs/default-source/tip/tip_03-04_2017_povzetki.pdf?sfvrsn=6 
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