Feminist Media Studies: 9 (Media Culture & Society series)

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Anne Fleur Van Veenstra, EA (Liesbet) van Zoonen & Natali Helberger (2021) - ELSA labs for human centric innovation in AI This major textbook for media research covers a range of widely used methods including content analysis, surveys, historical analysis, different methods of textual analysis and participant observation. In postmodern culture the boundaries between the ‘real’ world and the world of the media have collapsed and that it is no longer possible to distinguish between what is reality and what is simulation. In fact, it really doesn't matter which is which! Identity is a performance, and it is constructed through a series of acts and 'expressions' that we perform every day. how and why particular social groups, in a national and global context, may be under-represented or misrepresented

The oppositional reading - where the producer’s message is understood, but the audience disagrees with the ideological perspective in every respect Arthur Asa Berger (2011) Media and Communication Research Methods: An Introduction to Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches. 2nd edition. London: Sage.

Numerous quantitative content analysis have shown that women hardly appeared in the mass media, but it depicted as wife, mother, daughter, girlfriend; as working in traditionally female jobs (secretary, nurse, receptionist); or as sex-object. Moreover they are usually young and beautiful, but not very well educated (Gallagher, 1980). This edited collection includes authors from countries around the world, investigating a broad range of issues from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Topics include representations of Hillary Clinton, the media construction of masculinity in US presidential campaigns and female members of the British Parliament, and issues of gender and class in reporting politics in India.

Pantti, M. and Sumiala, J. (2009) “Till death do us join: media, mourning rituals and the sacred centre of the society,” Media Culture and Society, 31(1): 119-35. Unlike the generic audience or the classic spectator, fans are active participants in the construction and circulation of textual meaningsVan Zoonen believes the media strategies of radical feminism are straightforward: women should create their own means of communication and try to free themselves completely women have to cut off all ties with men and male society. Clearly written, critical introduction to the study of gender and media, drawing primarily on Anglo-American research. Offers a broad history of feminist media approaches and research to date, highlighting some of the most pressing debates over the past few decades (e.g., images of women, media employment, media and body image, sexualization and pornography, masculinity and men’s magazines, talk shows, news, and advertising). Harding, S.F. (1994) “The Born-Again Telescandals,” in N.B. Dirks, G. Eley and S.B. Ortner (eds) Culture / Power / History, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, pp. 539-56. Women’s bodies are used in media products as a spectacle for heterosexual male audiences, which reinforces patriarchal hegemony Why study popular culture? Or how to build a case for your thesis in a religious studies or theology department,” in G. Lynch (ed.) Between Sacred and Profane: Researching Religion and Popular Culture, London: IB Tauris, pp.5-20.

Ginsburg, F., Abu-Lughod, L. and Larkin, B. (eds) (2002) Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.Andrea Mauri, Achilleas Psyllidis, Alessandro Bozzon, Ju Sung Lee, Jason Pridmore, Liesbet Van Zoonen & Sarah Giest (2021) - Complementing studies on vulnerable youths with reddit data - doi: 10.1145/3464385.3464703 - [link] Liesbet Zoonen (2020) - Data governance and citizen participation in the digital welfare state - Data & Policy, 2 (E10), 1-16 - doi: 10.1017/dap.2020.10 - [link] Horsfield, P., Hess, M.E. and Medrano, A.M. (eds) (2004) Belief in Media: Cultural Perspectives on Media and Christianity, Aldershot: Ashgate.