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February 26, 2007
Debate 4: Debate 4: Is it important that women be involved in the media industries as owners and creators?
Women Working in the Media from Media Awareness Network.
Note: These resources, with the exception of the GMMP, are US in orientation.
Carolyn Byerly. A Feminist Analysis of Media Conglomeration presented at Network of Women in Media, India Bandra, India, 13 January, 2004.
Carolyn Byerly. Questioning Media Access: Analysis of Women and Minority FCC Ownership
Data. "The Benton Foundation and the Social Science Research Council released four independent academic studies of the impact of media consolidation in the U.S. The studies focus on how the concentration of media ownership affect media content, from local news reporting to radio music programming and how minority groups have fared – as both media outlet owners and as historically-undeserved audiences -- in an increasingly deregulated media environment. These studies make clear that media consolidation does not correlate with better, more local or more diverse media content. To the contrary, they strongly suggest that media ownership rules should be tightened not relaxed."
Jennifer L. Pozner, Why Fixing the Media System Should Be on the Feminist Agenda, essay adapted for Reclaim the Media and NOW's NW Organizing Project from an essay in BitchFest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine and in Alternet.
Women in Media and News, includes a section on Research on Media and Women/Gender, Pozner's articles and essays, and a section on Media Justice: A Women's Issue.
Global Media Monitoring Project, 2005. "On 16th February 2005 the world's news media came under scrutiny when hundreds of people in over 76 countries monitored the representation and portrayal of women and men in news on television, radio and in newspaper. A year on, groups in over 50 countries launched the results of that incredible effort and challenged the media to ensure that fair gender portrayal becomes a professional criterion like any other such as balance, fairness and honesty which all good journalists should aspire to in their work."
Media Report to Women. Industry Statistics.
Posted by shade at February 26, 2007 09:12 PM