Congratulations to all our MAC scholars who continue to make important contributions to the literature about minorities in communication.

Sharon Stringer, Ph.D.
Professor of Communication
Lock Haven University, 603 Robinson
570-484-2092

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

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With kindness,
Anita Fleming-Rife

On Dec 2, 2013, at 7:25 PM, EK Daufin <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[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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