[commedia] FW: Media and Gender Monitor, just published

[Michelle McGuire]

Forwarded From: "Sean Hawkey" <SH at wacc.org.uk>
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Media and Gender Monitor is published by the Women's Programme at  WACC.
It gives in-depth research and news from regional conferences on gender
and communication policy, a forum involving media specialists, as well
as details of gender-communications projects and issues from around the
world.

Media and Gender Monitor es publicado por el Programa de Mujeres de la
WACC. Ofrece investigaciones y noticias de conferencias regionales sobre
politicas de genero y comunicaciÛn, un foro con participaciÛn de
especialistas de los medios, asi como detalles sobre proyectos y asuntos
de gÈnero-comunicaciÛn de todas partes del mundo.
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Contents of this issue of Media and Gender Monitor :

Targeting Men for Change
by Hilary Nicholson and Karen Small
The shift in focus from 'women' to 'gender' over the last decade has for
some been little more than a change in terminology. For others, like
Women's Media Watch in Jamaica, it has meant a change in their
activities to include men as well as women, as part of a process which
seeks to change the social relations of gender.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/10/men.html

Watching the Watchers
The 1990s witnessed a worldwide trend toward the delegation of power and
authority over media standards to self-regulatory organisations. This
shift has had a significant impact on citizens and civil society
organisations, yet it has attracted little policy analysis. In 2001,
MediaWatch, Canada sought to redress this situation with their report
'Watching the Watchers'.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/10/watching.html

Forum: Women of Faith and the Media
Women have been involved within religious institutions for thousands of
years in many and varied ways. Yet it is distorted and simplistic
stereotypes that dominate much of the coverage of women of faith in
mainstream media. In the wake of September 11th, as women of faith have
once again entered the media's consciousness, the Monitor forum explores
this and other issues through the voices of five women, each from a
different major world religion.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/10/forum.html

Breaking the History of Silence
In the early 1990s Asian women broke almost five decades of painful
silence to demand an apology and compensation for the atrocities they
and others suffered under Japanese military sexual slavery during the
Second World War. The voices of these women, speaking out about their
enslavement as 'comfort women', reached a crescendo at the end of 2000
when they gathered together to demand justice at the Women's
International War Crimes tribunal in Tokyo.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/10/break.html

Inspiring Questions
By Shubba H.S.
Why does gender discrimination occur? What could be my role as a woman
and as a teacher in eradicating gender discrimination? What is the link
between gender discrimination and the media? These were just some of the
questions raised during a one-day workshop on 'Gender Discrimination and
the Mass Media' held on 28th July 2001 by ANWIC near Mangalore, India.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/10/inspiring.html

The Tongue Set Free
By Ritu Menon
When it comes to women writers, censorship changes many colours,
chameleon-like. In late July 2001, over 65 women writers from 11
languages met in Hyderabad, India, at a most unusual gathering to
discuss not only the many faces of censorship in India, but its
peculiarly and particularly gendered dimensions as well.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/10/tongue.html

Gender Equality Media Awards
Monitoring the media's portrayal of women and finding new strategies to
challenge gender stereotyping in the media have been long standing
concerns of gender and media activists throughout the world.  The
Women's Media Centre (WMC) in Cambodia is no exception. 2001 saw the
launch of the WMC's 'Gender Equality Media Awards - a new and innovative
approach to improving the portrayal of women in the Cambodian media.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/10/gema.html

WACCtivities:
Alternative Media in Fiji: A Tool for Community Education
In 2001 Community Television (CTV) made two videos concerned with gender
issues. Featuring local women, the videos aim to raise awareness in the
community on issues from breast cancer to domestic violence. In the
context of the ever-increasing globalisation of television media, the
programmes are part of a vital alternative media which truly address the
needs of the people who make up television audiences.
Learning from Experience
By Allen Ssekindi and Dorothy Munyakho
In early October 2001, a team of five women representing media
organizations in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe visited Mediaworks
in South Africa on a two-week educational tour and media-monitoring
course. The idea behind the tour was to learn from the Mediaworks
experience in order to start media monitoring initiatives in their home
countries. 
Saint or Sex Object: Women in Advertising
In Bolivia, as in many countries, the media tend to portray women as
subservient to men and present a reductionist picture of their lives
with women relegated to domestic roles, often little more than sex
objects. Battling against this negative portrayal is RED-ADA which in
2001 undertook a research project 'Monitoring the Image of Women in
Advertising'. 
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/10/activities.html

News
News on gender and media issues from around the world
http://www.wacc.org.uk/publications/mgm/10/news.html

To receive a copy of one of the above articles, contact:
women at wacc.org.uk




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WACC supports the democratisation of communications, communication for human
dignity and the right to communicate in situations of censorship and
oppression.

La Asociación Mundial de Comunicación Cristiana (WACC por sus siglas en
ingles) apoya la democratisación de la comunicación, la comunicación para la
dignidad humana y el derecho a la comunicación en situaciones de censura y
opresión.

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