The Handbook of Gender, Communication, and Women's Human Rights (Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research) - Hardcover

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MARGARET GALLAGHER is an independent researcher who has published widely on gender, media, and communication rights. She started her career at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) before moving to the Open University, where she was Deputy Head of the Audio-Visual Media Research Group. She has consulted for the United Nations, the European Commission, the Council of Europe, as well as international development agencies and broadcasting organizations. She serves on the editorial boards of International Communication Gazette, Feminist Media Studies, and Media Development.

AIMÉE VEGA MONTIEL is a researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Sciences and Humanities at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She is Co-Chair of the UNESCO UNITWIN on Gender, Media, and ICTs, and Chair of the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG). She is a past Vice-President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and has served as an expert for the Council of Europe Recommendation of Gender Equality in the Audiovisual Sector.

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A state-of-the-art exploration of the intersection between gender, communication, and women's rights

How do media, information, and communication systems intersect with women’s human and communication rights? Are they enablers of those rights? Or are they structural components of a social order in which women’s rights are ignored, questioned, or denied?

The Handbook of Gender, Communication, and Women’s Human Rights is a timely intervention in contemporary debates on women’s rights, democracy, and neoliberalism. The first major collection on the subject published in the COVID-19 era, this unique volume addresses both core and emerging topics in feminist media scholarship and research, including intersectionality in communication, feminist activism in digital media, online misogyny and gender-based violence, feminist perspectives on communication governance, gendered disinformation in the platform society, gendered power in Artificial Intelligence, and much more.

A transnational panel of feminist academics and activists demonstrates the need for strong feminist critiques of exclusionary power structures, discusses new opportunities and challenges in promoting change, analyzes how the pandemic has exacerbated structures of inequality, and explores feminist approaches to communication and data justice for the 21st century.

Covering a wide spectrum of issues germane to gender and communication within a human rights framework, The Handbook of Gender, Communication, and Women’s Human Rights is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, academics and researchers, policymakers, media professionals, and civil society and human rights activists.