"On January 18, 1995, groups of people in 71 countries met to monitor the news of the day as reported on radio and television and in newspapers. They focused their attention on stories about women and by women. The results of that world-wide study have now been released in a report co-ordinated by M
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ediaWatch Canada called 'The Global Media Monitoring Project: Women's Participation in the News." This is a study guide to that report. It is designed so that it can be used by groups or individuals who do not have the full report." (Back cover)
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"This booklet contends that the lifestyle of women in the Third World, including Malaysia, has been influenced by the Western media which represent "the interests and values of an alien and dominant culture" and project a Western brand of consumption which is discriminatory, oppressive and male-orie
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nted. Chapters discuss the use of women in advertising, pornography, sex tourism (a form of prostitution with Westerners), women's magazines, novels, television and film, and newspapers. References, the great majority of which are from Western sources." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 2)
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"Three studies, each backgrounding the press as a whole, its image of women, and their professional status in the mass media." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 11)
"Gallagher has brought together research results culled from hundreds of worldwide reports (many of them in mimeographed forms), articles, fugitive materials, and a lesser number of books (which are much scarcer), to address certain basic questions about the relationship between women and the media.
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The questions: What are the issues? What do we know already? What has been done so far? What remains to be done? She has then related her findings to the needs and possibilities of action. One of the most valuable features of the book is the bibliography of her materials. Appendixes list international feminist publications; directories and guidebooks; seminar proceedings and reports; groups and organizations; formats for media analysis; and the list of references previously mentioned." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 134)
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"Covers a wide range of books and articles, broken down by media - advertising, broadcasting (radio, television, film), and print (Newspapers and magazines); and within the various media by geographic location - North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Contains a list of the research studies analyzed
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." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1644)
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