Feminist Approaches to Media Theory and Research

Dustin Harp is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and an affiliated faculty member of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA. Her research explores power at the intersections of women and marginalized communities, journalism, and mass media.Jaime Loke is Assistant Professor in the Bob Schieffer School of Communication at Texas Christian University, USA. Her research interests rest on the intersection of women and minorities, mass media, and the new online public spheres from a critical and cultural theoretical perspective.Ingrid Bachmann is Associate Professor in the School of Communications at La Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where she chairs the Journalism Department. She primarily focuses on the role of the news media in the definition of identities and meanings within the public sphere.

• 1. Through a Feminist Kaleidoscope: Critiquing Media, Power, and Gender Inequalities.- 2. Feminism, Theory and Communication: Progress, Debates, and Challenges Ahead.- 3. The Applicability of Symbolic Annihilation in the Middle East.- 4. Sleeping with the Enemy: The Male Gaze and Same-Sex Relationships on Network Television.- 5. The Affective Turn in Feminist Media Studies in the Twenty-First Century.- 6. Girls, Media, and Sexuality: The Case for Feminist Ethics.- 7. Queer and Feminist Approaches to Transgender Media Studies.- 8. Feminist Perspectives to Sports Media: State of the Field.- 9. Online Framing on Abortion and Violence in South America: Dissonant Sense Making.- 10. States of Exception: Gender-Based Violence in the Global South.- 11. Bringing Race into Feminist Digital Media Studies.- 12. Conservative Women in Power: A New Predicament for Transnational Feminist Media Research.- 13. Gender and the Mediated Political Sphere from a Feminist Theory Lens.- 14. “Hashtag Feminism”: Activism or Slacktivism?.- 15. Teaching Girls Online Skills for Knowledge Projects: A Research-Based Feminist Intervention.- 16. (Re)Writing Women’s Lives: A Call for Media Scholars to Renew Their Efforts at Feminist Biography.- 17. The Intangible Stories of War Carpet.