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Media disparity : a gender battleground /

For decades, scholars have repeatedly found the inequity of gender representations in informational and entertainment media. Beginning with the seminal work by Gaye Tuchman and colleagues, we have repeatedly seen a systemic underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in media. Examining the l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Armstrong, Cory L., 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface / Gaye Tuchman
  • Part one. Traditional media and issues ; Introduction / Cory L. Armstrong
  • Women's (mis) representation in news media / Tracy Everback
  • Gendered sexual scripts in music lyrics and videos popular among adolescents / Stacey J.T. Hust, Kathleen Boyce Rogers, and Weina Ran
  • Women in health news and communication / Julie L. Andsager
  • Newspaper coverage of women running for the U.S. Senate in 2012 : evidence of an increasingly level playing field? / Dianne G. Bystrom and Valerie M. Hennings
  • From annihilation to ambivalence : women in sports coverage / Dunja Antunovic and Marie Hardin
  • Part two. Contemporary media platforms and issues ; Wikipedia's gender gap / Stine Eckert and Linda Steiner
  • The good, the bad and the beautiful : how gender is represented on reality television / Adriane Grumbein and J. Robyn Goodman
  • Adverting the gaze : advertisers' construction of female masculinity through the athleticism of Olympians Abby Wambaugh, Lindsey Vonn, and Marlen Esparza / Kim Bissell and Sim Butler
  • Gendered performance in virtual environments / Donna Z. Davis
  • Part three. Cross-cultural perspectives on gender in media ; Bic for her and crisps for him : contemporary gendered targeting and representation in advertising around the world / Alexandra M. Vilela, Michelle R. Nelson, and Hye-Jin Paek
  • Women making news (or not) in Uganda / Steve J. Collins and Timothy Brown
  • Blame narratives : news discourses of sex trafficking / Barbara Friedman and Anne Johnston
  • Gender differences in covering public health crises in China / Fangfang Gao
  • Part four. Where are we now? ; Media and public discourse : the limits of feminist influence / Carolyn M. Byerly
  • Conclusion : the next frontier in gender representation / Cory L. Armstrong.