Please consider submitting a short abstract for our special issue of Feminist Media Studies. The deadline is March 1, 2024.
Global Media Ethics: A Feminist Intervention
Special Issue Editors:
Lindsay Palmer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State University
This special issue brings together three strands of scholarship: global media ethics, feminist media ethics, and transnational feminist theory. Some of the most prominent feminist media scholars have long championed a feminist media ethics: an approach to the production and dissemination of media texts, technologies, and communities that thinks critically about gender inequality (Scott 1993; Kitch 1999; Steiner 2009). Yet, these scholars have mostly focused on media in U.S. and British contexts. At the same time, "global" media ethicists have sought to think about the ways in which race, ethnicity, nation, and religion all impact the search for a media ethics that can cross geopolitical borders. Yet, their work has not significantly considered the problem of gender inequality.
Our special issue places these two fields into conversation with transnational feminist theory. By bringing these strands of scholarship together, we hope to push global media ethicists to focus more intentionally on gender, drawing on intersectional feminist theories to do so. Additionally, we want to explore how feminist media ethicists would benefit from thinking outside the U.S. and Britain, particularly in a way that considers the intersectionality of identit(ies) that complicate feminist agendas. We therefore seek submissions that draw upon feminist theorizing to study the best practices for producing and consuming media in a globalized world.
Link to the full CFP: https://docs.google.com/document/d/122D8AXxA7UaoEvjXkDFHNKjpUK9vd2HBsjVJmTN39Cc/edit?usp=sharing
Please send a 250-word abstract to Lindsay Palmer at lindsay.palmer@wisc.edu by the deadline of March 1, 2024.