Thanks so much got sharing this information  -- so good to know how & what our colleagues are doing.  

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Anita Fleming-Rife

> On Dec 2, 2013, at 7:25 PM, EK Daufin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> These women MACers were featured in the AEJ CSW newsletter and I thought you'd like to see this.  I'm copying and pasting from a PDF so please forgive the formatting oddities.  Men are allowed to be members of CSW too if you were wondering.  Any men or women who are missed here and want to post something please do so.  If you want me to do it for you I will when I can (don't be so modest...post it) Please forgive and delete any double postings.
> 
> Diana I. Rios, U Connecticut is
> part of a team of scholars (faculty and
> graduate students from different campuses)
> examining gender, sexuality and violence
> in international melodramatic serials such
> as telenovelas. As several women scholars
> have noted in the literature, there has been a
> growing tendency to present “empowered,”
> violent females who use guns, aggression
> and killing to obtain goals. This kind
> of representation is what we have been
> critiquing and examining most recently in
> “narco-dramas.”
> Separately, while serving as vicepresident
> of the UConn chapter of the
> American Association of University
> professors, Rios has been involved in
> collective bargaining on specific topics of
> interest related to the contract the university
> has with the faculty union. Collective
> bargaining is key to a healthy university
> where the needs, rights of faculty members
> are protected. Do you have collective
> bargaining on your campus? For example, do
> you know who negotiated the health care,
> retirement benefits on your campus? Are
> your intellectual property rights protected
> or are you considered laborers for hire? Find
> out where you stand.
> Drs. Mia Moody-Ramirez and
> Jannette Dates, who met while participating
> in the CSW mentorship program, have
> teamed up to write a book titled, The
> Obamas and Mass Media: Race, Gender,
> Religion, and Politics (Palgrave Pivot). It is
> scheduled for release in January of 2014.
> Using the cultural prism of race, The
> Obamas and Mass Media critically examines
> the images of African Americans that exist
> in media of the 21st century. Further, the
> authors assess the ways in which media
> focused on gender, religion, and politics in
> framing perceptions of the president and
> first lady of the United States during the
> Obama administration. The text draws on a
> wide range of textual and critical strategies
> to interpret, criticize,
> and deconstruct media
> artifacts.
> Moody-Ramirez
> is Graduate Program
> Director and
> Associate Professor
> in the Department
> of Journalism,
> Public Relations,
> and New Media at
> Baylor University. Janet Dates is Dean Emerita
> of the Howard
> University School of
> Communications.
> This spring, Mia
> Moody-Ramirez,
> Ph.D., received
> tenure and was
> promoted to Graduate
> Program Director and
> Associate Professor
> of Journalism, Public
> Relations and New
> Media at Baylor University. She began
> teaching at the university 13 years ago as a
> graduate student.
> Carolyn M. Byerly, professor at Howard
> University, recently published The Palgrave
> International Handbook of Women and
> Journalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013,
> ISBN 978-1-137-27323-9,477 pages).
> The book, an edited collection, is
> an academic adaptation of the study
> Global Report on the Status of Women
> in News Media, a 59-nation study that
> Byerly conducted earlier under funding
> by International Women’s Media
> Foundation. IWMF published the 400-page
> technical report with the study’s findings in
> 2011.
> The new Handbook is the most
> complete statement to date of women’s
> employment relationship to traditional
> news companies across the world. The
> book includes 29 of the original 59 nations
> surveyed, with those chapters authored
> by the original researchers for each nation,
> in most cases. Byerly also included an
> introduction, a theory chapter (feminist
> political economy), and a conclusion that
> reflects on what has been learned about
> women’s place in a profession that is
> routinely associated with democracy. The
> aggregated data from the original study
> had shown that men outnumber women
> about 2:1 in the profession globally, and
> to dominate in top management and
> governance levels about 3:1. The Handbook
> just published breaks down the statistics for
> a more nuanced view of individual nations’
> situations. In Spain, as in the European
> nations of Bulgaria, Russia and Estonia, for
> example, the journalism profession is largely
> feminized, but for very different reasons
> politically and historically. Even in these
> and other nations with significant strides
> by women into the mid-to-high editorial
> ranks and even lower levels of management
> -- e.g., Sweden, Finland and Canada --
> men still claim the upper management
> and governance roles for themselves. In
> all nations, authors ponder the economic,
> cultural, historical and other factors that
> have institutionalized sexist practices that
> thwart women’s advancement into decision
> making roles.
> Mexican authors Aimee Vega
> Montiel and Patricia Ortega Ramirez do a
> particularly in-depth job of locating women’s
> lower status in the journalism profession
> within a masculine political economy of
> capitalism, the analytical framework that
> informs the book’s organization and broader
> concerns for women’s location in the
> profession. It bears mentioning that nearly
> all of the authors commented on the extent
> to which their nations’ media systems have
> become concentrated in their ownership,
> and explained ways this has affected women’s
> entry to the profession, ability to maintain
> regular employment and advancement in
> ranks.
> All regions of the world are included
> in the book, including North America
> (Canada, USA, Mexico), South America
> (Brazil, Chile), Western Europe (France,
> Spain, UK, Germany), Eastern Europe
> (Bulgaria, Poland, Estonia, Russia), Nordic
> Europe (Sweden, Finland, Norway),
> Asia/South Asia (China, Japan, India,
> Bangladesh), Oceana (Australia), Africa
> (Uganda, South Africa, Namibia, Ghana,
> 
> -- 
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> Alabama State University
> National Media Size Equity Expert
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>   Research Award AEJMC CSW
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