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Somali diaspora and digital belonging: Introduction

Sandra Ponzanesi

Journal of Global Diaspora & Media, volume 2, issue 1 (2021), pp. 3-15

"This editorial introduces the theoretical framework, methodological approach and comparative themes of the Special Issue on 'Somali Diaspora and Digital Practices: Gender, Media and Belonging'. The Special Issue proposes to connect the notion of the Somali diaspora to recent advancements in communi ... more

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Women in African Publishing and the Book Trade: A Series of Profiles

Hans M. Zell

African Book Publishing Record, volume 47, issue 1 (2021), pp. 8-43

"The late Asenath Bole Odaga, one of the pioneers of women in publishing in Africa and founder of Lake Publishers & Enterprises Ltd in Kenya in 1983, in an account of her early experience as a publisher, wrote1 that she found it to be an uphill struggle initially, and was confronted by male colleagu ... more

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Ciberfeminismos 3.0

Graciela Natansohn (ed.)

Covilhã: Universidade da Beira Interior;LabCom (2021), 240 pp.

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IMS Strategy on Gender Equality (2021-2023)

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2021), 22 pp.

"The strategy presented in this document is the result of a year-long process of literature review and consultation with staff, partners, journalists and experts. A number of webinars for seminars and debates were organised, and several drafts were distributed and discussed. Consequently, this strat ... more

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The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies

Frederick Luis Aldama (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2021), xxiv, 569 pp.

"A diverse range of international and interdisciplinary scholars take a closer look at how gender and sexuality have been essential in the evolution of comics, and how gender and sexuality in comics demand that we re-frame and re-view comics history. Essays cover a wide array of intersectional topic ... more

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Cobertura mediática para casos de violencia de género en Puerto Rico: Guía para periodistas y profesionales de la comunicación

San Juan, Puerto Rico: Coordinadora Paz para las Mujeres (2020), 22 pp.

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Feminist Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning

Ottawa: Oxfam Canada (2020), 8 pp.

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Women's Rights Online: Closing the Digital Gender Gap for a More Equal World

Chenai Chair, Ingrid Brudivg, Calum Cameron

Washington, DC: World Wide Web Foundation (2020), 30 pp.

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Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado-Perez

London: Vintage (2020), xv, 411 pp.

"Invisible Women shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population. It exposes the gender data gap - a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against women, and that has created a pervasive but invisible ... more

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Capítulo de género, igualdad y diversidad

María Eugenia Álvarez, Cynthia Benzion, Sandra Chaher, Ludmila Fernández López, Belén Spinetta

Asociación Civil Comunicación para la Igualdad;SembraMedia, Centro Internacional para Periodistas (ICFJ) (2020), 58 pp.

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The Use of Telegram for Non-Consensual Dissemination of Intimate Images: Gendered Affordances and the Construction of Masculinities

Silvia Semenzin, Lucia Bainotti

Social Media + Society, volume 6, issue 4 (2020), 12 pp.

"This article analyses the role of Telegram in orienting, amplifying, and normalizing the non-consensual diffusion of intimate images (NCII). We focus on the sense of anonymity, the platform’s weak regulation, and the possibility of creating large male communities, arguing that these affordances a ... more

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Going online for sexual and reproductive health meaningfully engaging adolescent girls and young women for smarter digital interventions

Girl Effect;Women Deliver (2020), vi, 41 pp.

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Incluidapps. Guía 1: La importancia del uso de lenguaje inclusivo y su aprendizaje en el aula

Mercedes Sánchez Vico, Ana Magallanes Camón

Instituto Canario de Igualdad (ICI) (2020), 15 pp.

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Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U.S. And Brazilian Media

Jasmine Mitchell

Urbana et al.: University of Illinois Press (2020), xvi, 268 pp.

"Brazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term melting pot. Both nations have long used the image of the mulatta to push skewed cultural narratives. Highlighting the prevalence of mixed-race women of African and European descent, the two countries claim to have ... more

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Gazing Past the Glass Ceiling: Indian and South African Female Journalists’ Perceptions of Their Role and Power in the Newsroom

Shakuntala Rao, Ylva Rodny-Gumede

Global Media and Communication, volume 16, issue 1 (2020), pp. 57-74

"This article analyses female journalists’ perceptions of their own role, their power in the newsroom, their influence over the news agenda and the challenges they face on a daily basis in two large media-saturated countries and emerging democracies, India and South Africa. India and South Africa ... more

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The Contribution of Citizen Views to Understanding Women’s Empowerment as a Process of Change: The Case of Niger

Emma Heywood, Maria Tomlinson

Feminist Media Studies, volume 20, issue 5 (2020), pp. 713-729

"This article investigates citizen’s views on women’s empowerment as a process of change in Niger, the lowest country on the Human Development Index where women suffer widespread gender inequality. It draws on semi-structured interviews with radio and civil society organisation (CSO) representat ... more

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Radio Journalism and Women's Empowerment in Niger

Emma Heywood

Journalism Studies, volume 21, issue 10 (2020), pp. 1344-1362

"The significance of radio as a provider of essential news and information in conflict-affected and fragile countries cannot be underestimated nor can its role in contributing to shifts in critical consciousness, changes in behaviour, and raising awareness amongst marginalised groups. This is partic ... more

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Women's Activism and New Media in the Arab World

Ahmed Khalid Al-Rawi

Albany: State University of New York Press (2020), xiv, 152 pp.

"Following the Arab Spring events in 2011, a number of important women's social movements as well as female figures and online communities emerged to create positive change and demand equality with men. In Women's Activism and New Media in the Arab World author Ahmed Al-Rawi discusses and maps out n ... more

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Life in Lulu: How Can Radio Drama Shift Peoples’ Perceptions Around Violence and Support Women to Resolve Disputes?

London: BBC Media Action (2020), 11 pp.

"There is evidence that [the radio drama series] 'Life in Lulu' had a strong impact on women’s attitudes and inspired female listeners to resolve conflicts non-violently and encourage others to do the same. This seems to be driven by having characters that are engaging to women and storylines that ... more

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Media Practices and Changing African Socialities: Non-Media-Centric Perspectives

Jo Helle-Valle, Ardis Storm-Mathisen (eds.)

New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2020), 250 pp.

"Deriving from innovative new work by six researchers, this book questions what the new media's role is in contemporary Africa. The chapters are diverse - covering different areas of sociality in different countries - but they unite in their methodological and analytical foundation. The focus is on ... more