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Hybridity, Identity And Global Music: A Review Of Cultural Globalization: A User’S Guide, Margaretha Geertsema Sligh
Hybridity, Identity And Global Music: A Review Of Cultural Globalization: A User’S Guide, Margaretha Geertsema Sligh
Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication
A review by Margaretha Geertsema, Butler University, of the book Cultural Globalization: A User's Guide by J. Macgregor Wise.
Challenging The Lion In Its Den: Dilemmas Of Gender And Media Activism In South Africa, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh
Challenging The Lion In Its Den: Dilemmas Of Gender And Media Activism In South Africa, Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh
Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication
Media activism groups work to bring about change in the mainstream media, but their gains are often limited. Drawing on theories of the political function of news in a democracy, media sociology, and feminism, this article focuses on the specific experience of Gender Links, a Southern African gender and media organization founded in 2001. An analysis of institutional materials and 25 in-depth interviews shows that Gender Links is using a professional-technical approach to feminist media activism that is insufficient in bringing about deep and long-term change on an ideological level. It is suggested that Gender Links could benefit from more …