SOCIAL GENDER AND MEDIA
- Course
- COMM606 - SOCIAL GENDER AND MEDIA
- Department
- Communication and Media Studies - English - PhD
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 3
- ECTS
- 0
- T+P+L
- 3 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- -
- Prerequisite
- -
- Keywords
Course Description
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SOCIAL GENDER AND MEDIA
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Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction to the course. Discussion of concepts: Gender/Sexuality/ Femininity/Masculinity |
| Week 2 | Feminisms/ Waves of feminism |
| Week 3 | Media Representations of Gender / Streotyping |
| Week 4 | Representing Women in Popular Culture (reading: Imelda Whelehan in The Sage Handbook of Feminist Theory, pp: 232-250) |
| Week 5 | Analyzing Gender in Media Texts: Content analysis |
| Week 6 | Analyzing Gender in Media Texts: Semiotic analysis |
| Week 7 | Analyzing Gender in Media Texts: Discourse analysis |
| Week 8 | Midterm exam week |
| Week 9 | Analyzing Gender in Media Texts: Postmodernism, Postcolonialism, and Queer theory |
| Week 10 | Advertising and Postfeminism |
| Week 11 | News, Gender and Journalism |
| Week 12 | Talk Shows and Gender |
| Week 13 | Gender in Magazines |
| Week 14 | Postfeminist Romance |
| Week 15 | Postfeminist Media Culture |
Reference Books & Course Materials
- 01 Gill, Rosalind (2007). Gender and the Media. Cambridge: Polity Press
- 02 Carter, C, Steiner, L. and L. McLaughlin, eds (2014). The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender. London: Routledge.
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