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A Game Industry Beyond Diversity: Systemic Barriers To Participation In South Korea, Florence M. Chee
A Game Industry Beyond Diversity: Systemic Barriers To Participation In South Korea, Florence M. Chee
Florence Chee
Digital gaming has become a prominent part of mainstream culture. However, as one may observe in the public exhibitions of this form of play, the multitude of reasons for participation in the games industry are especially divided along gender lines. This paper is an analysis of themes emerging from the critical ethnographic examination of South Korea’s1 online game culture that, upon closer and iterative analyses, point to additional socioeconomic complications and systemic barriers to women’s equitable participation in the game development and production. Using South Korea’s national context as a point of reference, the findings from this case study offer …
Gender Issues In News Coverage, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh
Gender Issues In News Coverage, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh
Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh
This entry discusses the participation and representation of women in the news media. Women entered journalism primarily to appeal to female audiences in the 19th century and were expected to write about topics considered to be of interest for women, such as food, fashion, family and furniture. Today, global studies show that women remain underrepresented at all levels of news organizations, with a glass ceiling preventing women from rising to top positions. Female journalists are especially facing challenges in war reporting and sports reporting, and as opinion columnists. In terms of representation, women are frequently represented in a negative …
Playing Italian: Cross-Cultural Dress And Investigative Journalism At The Fin De Siècle, Laura Vorachek
Playing Italian: Cross-Cultural Dress And Investigative Journalism At The Fin De Siècle, Laura Vorachek
Laura Vorachek
This examination of late Victorian journalism reveals that one type of clothing offered middle-class women protection from street harassment: cross-cultural dress. In appropriate ethnic attire, reporters and social investigators ventured into the immigrant communities that made up a part of England’s urban poor, exploring such trades as Jewish fur-puller or Italian organ-grinder. This incognito ethnic attire afforded women both the means and the authority to carry out their investigations into the Italian constituency of the Victorian working poor. This study also examines how costumes enabled female investigators to manipulate class- and gender-based assumptions about who had broad access to the …
Sex Trafficking & The Internet, Donna M. Hughes Dr.
Sex Trafficking & The Internet, Donna M. Hughes Dr.
Donna M. Hughes
No abstract provided.
Girls On Screen: How Film And Television Depict Women In Public Relations, Jane Johnston
Girls On Screen: How Film And Television Depict Women In Public Relations, Jane Johnston
Jane Johnston
This paper explores how women in public relations have been depicted in the popular culture forms of film and television. With some reference to early screen depictions, it focuses primarily on film and television from the past two decades, analysing women in a variety of public relations roles in the 1990s and 2000s. The study looks at nine leading television series and movies from the United States and United Kingdom to examine how women in public relations are portrayed, and also collates the data from previous studies to develop a profile of how depictions have changed since the 1930s. Primarily, …
Women Film Directors And Producers, Ann M. Savage
Women Film Directors And Producers, Ann M. Savage
Ann M. Savage
Encyclopedic entry concerning women film directors.
Underground, Ann M. Savage
Underground, Ann M. Savage
Ann M. Savage
Encyclopedic entry concerning the independent punk counterculture.
Body Matters, Meenakshi Durham
Body Matters, Meenakshi Durham
Meenakshi Gigi Durham
An essay is presented on genderscapes, the physical conditions of women's lives that challenge the notion of a virtual disembodied self in cyberspace as people focus on social networking, tweeting and texting. Hidden beneath cyberscapes are what the author terms genderscapes as more women are reportedly becoming victims of injustice including domestic violence, and women's bodies experiencing real pain. The author discusses materiality in terms of economics, social power and opportunity which lead to corporeality.
Body Matters, Meenakshi Durham
Body Matters, Meenakshi Durham
Meenakshi Gigi Durham
An essay is presented on genderscapes, the physical conditions of women's lives that challenge the notion of a virtual disembodied self in cyberspace as people focus on social networking, tweeting and texting. Hidden beneath cyberscapes are what the author terms genderscapes as more women are reportedly becoming victims of injustice including domestic violence, and women's bodies experiencing real pain. The author discusses materiality in terms of economics, social power and opportunity which lead to corporeality.
Creative Women In Advertising Agencies: Why So Few “Babes In Boyland”?, Sheri L. Broyles, Jean M. Grow
Creative Women In Advertising Agencies: Why So Few “Babes In Boyland”?, Sheri L. Broyles, Jean M. Grow
Jean Grow
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore reasons why there are so few women in creative departments of advertising agencies and to discuss what impact that might have on the work environment of those creative departments and advertising messages they create. Design/methodology/approach – Provides a review of published research and plus opinions of professionals who cover the advertising industry or work in agency creative departments. Personal observations from the authors’ time working in the advertising industry are also included. Findings – Themes gleaned from the literature look at the gender gap, the creative department of advertising agencies …
Gender And The Digital Economy: Perspectives From The Developing World, Margaretha Geertsema Sligh
Gender And The Digital Economy: Perspectives From The Developing World, Margaretha Geertsema Sligh
Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh
Editors Cecilia Ng and Swasti Mitter address an important and timely topic in their new book. The book sets out to do exactly what the title says: the authors interrogate the participation of women in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) industry, particularly in developing countries. As the editors point out in the introduction, there are concerns that globalization will increase inequalities and asymmetrical power relationships between the rich and the poor. Yet, they are quite optimistic about the potential enabling power of new technologies.