Full Description
This fourth edition of Women in Mass Communication addresses the myriad changes in media and mass communication disciplines in relation to women over the last five decades.
This volume traces the history of diversity, equity, and inclusion for women in media, enabling greater understanding of global discourses and inequities, exploring transnational feminism, offering criticism of underlying structures, and calling for meaningful changes to media systems. With particular emphasis on educational and professional approaches to media communication, the book brings together a wide variety of specific topics and connects them through an intersectional feminist lens that values diversity, equity, and inclusion while exposing global systemic misogyny. The volume features 23 authors with a variety of backgrounds and perspectives from Australia, Germany, Ghana, Kenya, Korea, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and the United States. This fourth edition focuses on marginalization practices—race, ethnicity, LGBTQ+, social class, and in multiple societies—providing insight into identity and difference in a global context.
An important text for students and scholars examining gender in relation to mass communication, media studies, and journalism, as well as those exploring wider issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion within these disciplines.
Contents
Part 1: Perspectives 1. Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Misogyny: Challenges in Mass Communication 2. Social Media and Misogyny: A Perilous Landscape 3. The Other: Identity and Difference in Global, Religious, and Gendered Context Part 2: Challenges in the Academy and Profession 4. Misogyny in Academia: The Irreparable Harm of Institutional Abuse 5. "All Your Tools Belong to Us": Feminist Uses of Media from the 19th to 21st Century 6. A Socio-Ecological Model of Influence: Pursuing Racial Equity and Inclusion in Public Relations 7. Incongruity of Gender Roles: Media Impact on Women in Science and Health Communication Part 3: Global Realities 8. Gender and Digital Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Feminist Political Economy of Enduring Inequities 9. Social Media's Gendered Affordances for Mobile Migrant Women in the Arabian Gulf 10. "Doing Gender": Cultural Differences in the Feminization of PR in Europe 11. Women Journalists and News: Lessons from New Zealand and Australia 12. Unraveling Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: The Role for Feminists and Media in Making Progress Last Part 4: Women in Mass Communication Celebration: Honoring Contributions of Colleagues
