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

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 713g
• 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