Gender Setting

New Agendas for Media Monitoring and Advocacy

Author: Margaret Gallagher
ISBN: 9781856498456

In an age of global information structures, what scope exists for independent citizen action in media and cultural policy formation? How can audiences effectively voice critiques of media content? In an increasingly market-centred and consumer-oriented media world, what is the potential for monitoring, lobbying and advocacy?This book argues that despite the breakdown of traditional patterns of regulation, there is a role for local action to promote diversity in the media. Focusing on media portrayals of gender, more particularly the media’s role in reproducing and reinforcing patterns of discrimination against women in society, the book aims to unify the hitherto disparate strands of academic research and feminist activism in the form of gender media monitoring aimed at policy critique and practical change. Research findings and monitoring experiences from both North and South are brought together to demonstrate how, with varying levels of resources and expertise, women’s groups ha

Publisher: Zed Books
Publish Date: 2001

Subjects: Social Science / General, Social Science / Gender Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Media)