Feminist Interventions in International Communication

Minding the Gap
Herausgeber: Sarikakis, Katharine; Shade, Leslie Regan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This cutting-edge work critiques today's global mediascape through feminist perspectives, highlighting concerns of policy, power, labor, and technology. Starting with the state of international communications, a top-notch author group covers cases on online news, pornography, democracy, policies for women's development, violence against women, information workers, print media, 'telecentres,' media coverage of HIV/AIDS, and more. This essential book provides fresh feminist insights into international communication, showing the important strides taken toward women's justice in these areas and how far there is yet to go.

Produktdetails

• Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 715g
• ISBN-13: 9780742553040
• ISBN-10: 0742553043
• Artikelnr.: 22819483

Autorenporträt

Katharine Sarikakis is senior lecturer in communications policy and director of the Centre for International Communications Research at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds. She is the author of Powers in Media Policy (Peter Lang 2004) and British Media in a Global Era (Arnold 2004), co-author of Media Policy and Globalization (Edinburgh University Press 2006), and the co-editor of Ideologies of the Internet (Hampton Press 2006). Leslie Regan Shade is associate professor at Concordia University's Department of Communication Studies in Montreal. She is the author of Gender and the Social Construction of the Internet (Peter Lang 2002), co-editor of Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian Communication (Nelson Thomson 2006), and co-editor of the Communications in the Public Interest series published by the Canadian Centre on Policy Alternatives.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 I: REVISITING INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS STUDIES Chapter 2 1
Revisiting International Communication: Approach of the Curious Feminist
Chapter 3 2 Feminist Issues and the Global Media System Chapter 4 3
Public/Private: The Hidden Dimension of International Communications
Chapter 5 4 Women, Participation and Democracy in the Information Society
Part 6 II: GENDERING POLICY REGIMES Chapter 7 5 The Expediency of Women
Chapter 8 6 Gender Sensitive Communications Policies for Women's
Development: Issues and Challenges Chapter 9 7 The Spectral Politics of
Mobile Communication Technologies: A Feminist Analysis of International
Policies Chapter 10 8 The Global Structures and Cultures of Pornography:
The Global Brothel Part 11 III: MEDIATING MEANINGS-MEDIATING REGIMES OF
POWER Chapter 12 9 Mediations of Domination: Gendered Violence Within and
Across Borders Chapter 13 10 From Religious Fundamentalism to Pornography?
The Female Body as Text in Arabic Song Video Chapter 14 11 Female Faces in
the Millennium Development Goals: Reflections in the Mirrors of Media
Chapter 15 12 Deadly Synergies: Gender Inequality, HIV/AIDs, and the Media
Chapter 16 13 Online News: Setting New Gender Agendas Part 17 IV: LABOURING
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS Chapter 18 14 Convergences: Elements of a
Feminist Political Economy of Labor and Communication Chapter 19 15 Women,
Information Work, and the Corporatization of Development Chapter 20 16
Empire and Sweatshop Girlhoods: The Two Faces of the Global Culture
Industry Part 21 V GLOCALIZING MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGIES Chapter 22 17
Feminist Print Cultures in the Digital Era Chapter 23 18 Communication and
Women in Eastern Europe: Challenges in Reshaping the Democratic Sphere
Chapter 24 19 "GodZone"? NZ's Classification of Explicit Material in an Era
of Global Fundamentalism Chapter 25 20 Grounding Gender Evaluation
Methodology (GEM) for Telecenters: The Experiences of Ecuador and the
Philippines