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POL S 558

Gender Politics and Mass Media

3 units

Winter 2023

Topics

  • Offer an introduction to the political role played by news and social media
  • Develop awareness and understanding of the gender politics of media, and especially news, production
  • Introduce and develop expertise in commonly used research methods for media analysis
  • Provide a forum for debate and discussion of alternative viewpoints

Readings

  • Trimble, Linda. 2017. Ms Prime Minister: Gender, Media, and Leadership. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Read pp. 1 – 14 of the Introduction
    required
  • Seely, Natalee. 2021. “Reporting on transgender victims of homicide.” Newspaper Research Journal 42 (1): 74-94
    required
  • Bachmann, Ingrid, Dustin Harp, and Jamie Loke. 2019. “Covering Clinton (2010-2015): meaning- making strategies in US magazine covers.” Feminist Media Studies 18 (5): 793-809
    required
  • Trimble, Linda and Natasja Treiberg. 2015. “Textual analysis.” In Explorations: A Navigator’s Guide to Research in Canadian Political Science, 3rd edition, ed. Loleen Berdahl and Keith Archer. Oxford University Press
    required
  • Cukier, Wendy, Samantha Jackson and Suzanne Gagnon. 2019. “The representation of women and racialized minorities as expert sources on-air in Canadian public affairs television.” Canadian Journal of Communication 44 (1): 25-47
    required
  • Gurrieri, Lauren. 2021. “Patriarchal marketing and the symbolic annihilation of women.” Journal of Marketing Management 37 (3-4): 364-370
    required
  • Schneider, Christopher J. and Stacey Hannem. 2019. “Politicization of sexual misconduct as symbolic annihilation: An analysis of news media coverage of the 2016 ‘rape election’.” Sexuality & Culture 23: 737-759
    required
  • Trimble, Linda. 2017. Ms. Prime Minister. Read chapter 7, “Speech and Shame,” pp. 184- 210
    recommended
  • Deckert, Antje. 2020. “Indigeneity matters: Portrayal of women offenders in New Zealand newspapers.” Crime Media Culture 16 (3): 337-357
    required
  • Savarese, Josephine L. 2017. “Challenging colonial norms and attending to presencing in stories of missing and murdered Indigenous women.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, 29: 157-181
    required
  • Moeke-Pickering, Taima, Sheila Cote-Meek and Ann Pegoraro. 2018. “Understanding the ways missing and murdered Indigenous women are framed and handled by social media users.” Media International Australia 169 (1): 54-64
    recommended
  • Watson, Kaitlyn. 2018-19. “Missing and murdered Indigenous women: The role of grassroots organizations and social media in education.” Canadian Woman Studies 33 (1-2): 205-210
    recommended
  • Rheault, Ludovic, Erica Rayment and Andrea Musulan. 2019. “Politicians in the line of fire: Incivility and the treatment of women on social media.” Research and Politics, Jan-March 2019: 1-7
    recommended
  • required
  • required
  • Reist, Wilissa and Linda Trimble. 2020. “Gender and political cartoons.” In The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media and Communication, ed. Karen Ross. John Wiley & Sons, Inc
    required
  • Smirnova, Michelle. 2018. “Small hands, nasty women, and bad hombres: hegemonic masculinity and humor in the 2016 presidential election.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 14 (1
    recommended
  • recommended
  • required
  • Trimble, Linda. 2017. Ms. Prime Minister: Gender, Media, and Leadership. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Read chapter 6, “Love and War,” pp. 148-183
    required
  • Wagner, Angelia, Linda Trimble, Jennifer Curtin, Meagan Auer and VKG Woodman. 2022. “Representations of political leadership qualities in news coverage of Australian and Canadian government leaders.” Politics & Gender 18 (3), 798-829
    recommended
  • Maiolino, Elise. 2015. “Political pugilists: Recuperative gender strategies in Canadian electoral politics.” Canadian Review of Sociology 52 (2): 115 - 133
    required
  • Neville-Shepard, Ryan and Casey Ryan Kelly. 2020. “Whipping it out: guns, campaign advertising, and the white masculine spectacle.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 37 (5): 466-479
    required
  • Ging, Debbie. 2019. “Alphas, betas, and Incels: theorizing the masculinities of the manosphere.” Men and Masculinities 22 (4): 638-657
    recommended
  • Myrttinen, Henri. 2019. “Stabilizing or challenging patriarchy: sketches of selected ‘new’ political masculinities.” Men and Masculinities 22 (3): 563-581
    recommended
  • Trimble, Linda. 2017. Ms. Prime Minister: Gender, Media, and Leadership. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Chapter 5, “Body politics,” pp. 119-147
    required
  • required
  • Trimble, Linda, Daisy Raphael, Shannon Sampert, Angelia Wagner and Bailey Gerrits. 2015. “Politicizing Bodies: hegemonic masculinity, heteronormativity, and racism in news representations of Canadian political party leadership candidates.” Women’s Studies in
    recommended
  • Everbach, Tracy. 2017. “Monica Lewinsky and shame: Newspaper framing of ‘that woman’. Journal of Communication Inquiry 2017 41 (3): 268-287
    required
  • Thompson, Jay Daniel. 2020. “Home-wrecking whore”: Barnaby Joyce, Vikki Campion, journalism, and the gender politics of the media sex scandal.” Feminist Media Studies 20 (7): 1029
    required
  • Gomez, Stephanie L. & Megan D. McFarlane. 2017. “It’s not handled”: Race, gender, and refraction in Scandal.” Feminist Media Studies 17 (3): 362-376
    recommended
  • Brown, Melissa, Rashawn Ray, Ed Summers and Neil Fraistat. 2017. “#SayHerName: a case study of intersectional social media activism.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 40 (11): 1831-1846
    required
  • Loney-Howes, Rachel, et. al. 2022. “Digital Footprints of #MeToo.” Feminist Media Studies 22 (6): 145-1362
    required
  • Clark, Rosemary. 2016. “Hope in a hashtag: the discursive activism of #WhyIStayed.” Feminist Media Studies 16 (5): 788-804
    recommended
  • Auer, Megan et al. 2022. “Invoking the idealized family to assess political leadership and legitimacy: news coverage of Australian and Canadian premiers.” Feminist Media Studies 22 (2): 338-353
    required
  • required
  • Trimble, Linda. 2017. Ms. Prime Minister: Gender, Media, and Leadership. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Read chapter 4, “First Men and the Family Strategy,” pp. 89-118
    recommended
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