gendermaria

Notes from a Swedish perspective on gender, research and media. It started at the IWMF International Conference of Women Media Leaders, March 22-25, 2011, in Washington DC, and activities that followed. Other follow up issues related to Section J in the Beijing platform for Action are also included. It might become active again. Feel free to explore the resources.

Friday, March 12, 2021

GMMP2020 and why gender & media research is important - a podcast with me

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The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) is a worldwide media monitoring, research and advocacy project that takes ever five years produ...
Sunday, November 22, 2020

The book and dataset is out!

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 I am proud and happy to share the good news that the book and dataset from our project Comparing Gender and Media Across the Globe is out...
Tuesday, May 5, 2020

In a time of cancellations

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As you might have understood, the seminar in conjunction with CSW64 in March was cancelled since the whole event was cancelled. It is qu...
Monday, February 3, 2020

Gender and media equality - save the date: March 12 at NGO CSW64

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I am happy to announce that the University of Gothenburg will have a parallel event at the NGO Forum Parallel event at the United Nation...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

The EU Mutual Learning Programme in Gender Equality - Women and the Media

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For the first time Women and the Media was in focus on a seminar organized by the EU Mutual  Learning Programme  in Gender Equality. The mee...
Friday, March 9, 2018

Media is a male business

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Last week Nordicom published a fact sheet that was quite revealing. The 100 largest media corporations are so lagging behind when it co...
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Maria Edström
Göteborg, Sverige, Sweden
I am a former journalist who holds a position as a Senior Lecturer and Associate professor at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication (JMG) at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. I am also a dedicated Iyengar yoga practitioner and an Internationally certified Iyengar yoga teacher, Introductury level II. My main research interest are issues regarding representation in the media ( especially gender and age) and freedom of expression. I am part of two research groups: 1) Comparing Gender and Media Equality across the Globe and (2) AgeCap, Centre for Ageing and Health, www.agecap.gu.se I also tweet on @gendermaria
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