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INTERdisciplina Comunicación y Género Ciudad de México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid - México - Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ediciones Complutense Ciencias y Humanidades Vol. 2, num. 1. June 2019 Vol. 7, num. 17. January 2019 ISSN-e: 2605-1982 ISSN: 2448-5705
Comunicación y Género is a journal INTERdisciplina is the Universidad entirely dedicated to the crossover Nacional Autónoma de México’s between communication and gender Centro de Investigaciones studies, launched in June 2018. Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias Published twice a year, the month y Humanidades’ (Science and of June 2019 saw its third issue Humanities Interdisciplinary published, made up of 8 articles Research Centre) journal. The principally focused on issues January-April 2019 issue examines related to developing the roles and gender relationships with the representation of women and men in media and new technologies. It the media and on social networks. has an editorial section, 8 original The issue opens with Mariona Visa articles in Spanish and English, an interview, two independent Barbosa, Francisco Cabezuelo y Teresa Piñeiro’s contribution contributions and a summary of the report Freedom of about the representation of fatherhood in the three successful Expression and Media Development, published by UNESCO. TV series’ Breaking Bad, Mad Men and Homeland. The first article in the issue is called “Women documentary Ana Bernal- Triviño’s text provides the results of her filmmakers as transnational ‘advocate change agents’”. investigation about the role of the media in the awareness and The author, Lisa French, examines the role of documentary non-revictimization related to machista violence from interviews filmmakers as change agents in the social, cultural, political with women who have been victims of the latter and legal transformation of society, and also as activists for Nerea Cuenca analyses what constitutes the construction women’s rights in the media. María Soledad Vargas makes of masculinity and femininity in her contribution to the issue, a comparative analysis of gendered discourse in the opinion through the concept of friendship in Pixar animation films. columns of the El País Semanal (El País) and Magazine (La Focusing on “Sex Education, the complete sex education on Vanguardia) publications. Aimée Vega’s article analyses the Netflix”, Francisca Pérez investigates the audiovisual discourses structural conditions of violence against women journalists in of OTT platforms, beginning with the study of the British series. a Mexican context. “Channels introducing life impacting small She not only examines the representation of feminism, gender technologies for women in SNNPR: where are the media?” by identities and sexual orientations, but also the role of family and Melisew Dejene and Tafesse Matewos is the result of a study educational institutions. carried out in the southern regions of Ethiopia to measure how The issue contains four more studies: “Invisibilization of the technological innovations are incorporated into women’s lives sportswomen in the sports media Twitter accounts” by Alba and to what extent the media contribute to this aspect. In Adá; “Reconfiguration of public media space. Collective actor’s their section, Claudia Padovani and Karen Ross investigate the self-narratives (Córdoba, Argentina), disputes of meaning and repercussion of the media in the portrayal of gender stereotypes proletarian public sphere”, by Nidia Abatedaga and María which can restrict employment opportunities. Isabel Rodrigo, Eugenia Boito; “Reflection and construction of the nineteenth- Patricia Núñez and Luis Rodrigo contribute a study about the century women in Spanish and American Enlightenment” potential of education in values and gender-based violence as by María Aboal, and “’The feminine’ and ‘the masculine’ of a tool for social change. The issue concludes with Édgar Vega’s flamenco dancing and its current hybridization: Manuel Liñán” study “From Gays and trans and to sexual / gender diversities: by María Cabrera. two decades of decriminalization of homesexuality in Ecuador” Available at:
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Feminist Media Studies Doxa Comunicación United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis Madrid: Universidad CEU San Pablo Vol. 19, núm. 3. February-June 2019 Num. 28. June 2019 ISSN: 1468-0777. Online ISSN: 1471-5902 ISSN: 1696-019X / e-ISSN: 2386-3978
This issue of Feminist Media Studies The latest issue of Doxa is divided into three sections. The Comunicación presents a first, Gaming Gender, contains two monograph about minors in the articles. One is “Representing sex digital environment, coordinated workers in video games” by Bonnie by María de Carmen García Galera Ruberg, who makes a critical analysis (URJC) and Leopoldo Abad Alcalá of the representation of sex workers (USP-CEU). in videogames, focused on the The first article of the monograph titled, “State of the issue of reification of feminine characters child sexualisation in the digital environment and media literacy and the devaluation of erotic labour. The other is “Unfolding proposals”, tackles the way in which the new social media female quiet in wargames” by Enrico Gandolfi and Mariacristina environment influences child sexualisation. In it, Carmen Llovet, Sciannamblo, which investigates the cultural mediatization of Mónica Díaz-Bustamante and Alfonso Méndiz also respectively the relationship between gender and war through the analysis present some proposals for media literacy. “Minors in the digital of the representation of female presence in Metal Gear Solid environment”, published by the coordinators of the monograph, V, one of the most popular videogames in today’s society. The María del Carmen García Galera and Leopoldo Abad Alcalá, is second section, Troubling Texts, includes three articles: “Prime- about the general way that minors adapt and learn in the digital time narcos: the Mafia and gender in Colombian television” ecosystem. Estibaliz Linares, Raquel Royo and María Silvestre by Toby Miller, Marta Milena Barrios and Jesús Arroyave, contribute their article “Sexual and sexist cyber-harassment which analyses the representation of women on Columbian towards young girls”, which focuses on sexual and sexist narconovelas; “Shameless television: gendering transnational cyberbullying that female adolescents in the Basque Country narratives” by Beth Johnson and Laura Minor, which analyses suffer, from a gender and cyber feminist perspective. “Media the textual representations and formal gender constructions convergence, risk and harm to children online” by Carmelo in the series Shameless; and “‘I’d like an abortion please’: Garitaonandia, Inaki Karrera and Nekane Larrañaga, presents rethinking unplanned pregnancy narratives in contemporary the most significant results of the Net Children Go Mobile1 American cinema” by Melissa Hair, which investigates the project, in which Denmark, Italy, the UK, Romania, Belgium, narratives surrounding pregnancy and abortion in American Ireland, Portugal and Spain have participated. These are based indie films Obvious Child and Grandma. The third section is on the analysis of new habits generated by the introduction of composed of four articles: “Unblurring the lines: a qualitative mobile phones and digital media among children. Aurora Edo exploration of young women’s opinions on popular music” and Belén Zurbano add their article “Journalistic deontology by Jessie F. McCallum and Peta L. Dzidic, which seeks on violence against women”, which tackles the authorship of to understand young women’s opinions of popular music; deontological production on violence against women and the “#Slane Girl, beauty pageants and padded bras” by Debbie media in Spanish and Latin American contexts from 1999 to Ging, Elizabeth Kiely, Karl Kitching and Máire Leane, which 2018. Finally, “New audiovisual consumption habits among enlightens us as to how the sexualisation of children has begun minors: approximation through the analysis of survey data” to be treated in Irish media; “We wouldn’t say it to their faces” by María José García-Orta, Victoria García-Prieto and Míriam by Dunja Antunovic, which examines the circulation of feminist Suárez-Romero, analyses, through surveys of adolescents aged messages in sports media discourses; and “Feminist power and between 14 and 17, how the introduction of video services on its implications on Uganda’s malaria communication campaign” demand alters the behaviour of this age group. by Aisha Sembatya Nakiwala and Brian Semujju, which studies Available at:
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Film Matters Science fiction fim and television Bristol: Intellect Liverpool: Liverpool University Press Online Vol. 9, num. 3. December 2018 Vol. 12, num. 1. February 2019 ISSN: 20421869. Online ISSN: 20421877 ISSN: 1754-3770. Online ISSN: 1754-3789
Film Matters is a journal dedicated Science Fiction Film & Television is a to film research. It is published journal attached to the University of four times a year with the aim of Liverpool. Its latest issue is dedicated raising awareness of student papers, to the presence of female astronauts simultaneously contributing to other in film. students’ learning. The magazine’s The first article, written by Yvonne latest issue includes four articles Tasker, “Women, SF spectacle and which explore gender related topics: the mise-en-scène of space adventure James Doyle presents, “A Real in the Star Wars franchise”, explores Human Being and a Real Hero: gender representations in the Star Masculinity, Liminality, and Design in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Wars saga. “Untethered technology in Gravity” by Lorrie Palmer, Drive”. The paper presents an analysis of the immaculate contributes a textual analysis of Gravity where she argues that image of masculinity in the film Drive through its visual design Sandra Bullock’s character reimagines the mythic figure of the and construction of the main character, a stunt driver and car astronaut within a collaborative and professional relationship mechanic in Hollywood. with spaceflight technology. “Square-jawed strength” by Lisa In addition, Emma Hughes, in her article “The New Global Purse, studies the representation of female astronaut characters West: Redefining the Borders of Genre in the Post-Revisionist as strong protagonists in science fiction films. Bronwyn Lovell, Western”, argues that the western as a film genre lives on and in “Cosmic careers and dead children”, offers an analysis of four that its characteristics continue to influence film today. The female astronaut characters: Ellen Ripley, Dr. Ryan Stone, Dr. author uses the term post-revisionist Western to describe the Molly Woods and Ava Hamilton, concluding that their maternity cinematic style of the film Unforgiven, by Clint Eastwood. stories are constructed in a similar way, always featuring the “A Feminine Techno-Utopía: Identification/Transformation/ death of a child. In “Gendering the Anthropocene”, Joseph Transcendence of Embodiment in Spike Jonze’s Her” by Jenner examines films such as The Cloverfield Paradox, One Alexandria R. Moore, argues that Spike Jonze’s film, Her, Under the Sun and The Space Between Us and television moves away from the traditional cinematic representations of series’ such as Extant and The 100. The author argues that, in femininity, artificial intelligence and construction of sexuality. parallel to the masculinised discourse present in this geological “A Recipe to Self-Made Womanhood? Nora Ephron’s Julie time, the rise in female astronauts in contemporary science & Julia, Domesticity, and Gender” by Florian Zitzelsberger, fiction suggests a review may be in order regarding the notions explores how the film Julie & Julia challenged and to some of who has the power to take action and politically intervene extent reinforces, the gender ideal associated with “the self- when faced with environmental problems on planet Earth. The made man” and the idealisation of “true femininity”. final article in the issue, “Visible/invisible” by Amanda Keeler, Available at:
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