"This book investigates how engagements with media reflect people's constructions and understandings of gender in society, as well as articulations of age in relation to gender and sexuality; the ways in which negotiations of gender and sexuality inform people's practices with media, and not least how mediated representations may reinforce or challenge social hierarchies based in differences of gender, sexual orientation and age. It will offer original empirical and theoretical insights into the complex set of relations which exist between age, gender, sexualities and the media. In doing so, it will showcase new and innovative research at the forefront of media and communication practice and theory. This collection includes contributions from both established and early career scholars across Europe, engaging with a wide range hotly debated topics within the context of gender, sexuality and the media and aiming at informing academic, public and policy agendas"--
This edited collection brings together original empirical and theoretical insights into the complex set of relations which exist between age, gender, sexualities and the media in Europe.
This book investigates how engagements with media reflect peoples constructions and understandings of gender in society, as well as articulations of age in relation to gender and sexuality; the ways in which negotiations of gender and sexuality inform peoples practices with media, and not least how mediated representations may reinforce or challenge social hierarchies based in differences of gender, sexual orientation and age. In doing so, it showcases new and innovative research at the forefront of media and communication practice and theory. Including contributions from both established and early career scholars across Europe, it engages with a wide range of hotly debated topics within the context of gender, sexuality and the media, informing academic, public and policy agendas.
This collection will be of interest to students and researchers in gender studies, media studies, film and television, cultural studies, sexuality, ageing, sociology and education.
Editors Introduction ; Part I: Young people, sexuality and gender
performance: Texts and audiences ;
1. Feminist YouTubers in Spain: A public
space for building resistance ;
2. Un/fit for young viewers: LGBT+
representation in Flemish and Irish childrens television ;
3. Breaking the
silence. Young people, sex information and the internet in Italy and Portugal
;
4. COVID-19 pandemic and discourses of anxiety about childhood sexuality in
digital spaces ; Part II: Adults, sexuality, gender and the media in research
perspective ;
5. HIV-related stigma in the European cinema: Conflictive
representations of a cultural trauma ;
6. Buiuld it and they will come: Sex
toys, heteronormativity and age ;
7. Fuelling hate: Hate speech towards women
in online news websites in Albania ;
8. "Tell me how old I am": Cinema,
pedagogy, adults and underage trans folks ; Part III: Elderly have a voice
(?): Sexuality, gender and the media across texts and audiences ;
9.
Invisible aged femininities in popular culture: Representational strategies
deconstructed ;
10. "Old dirty pops and young hot chicks": Age differences in
pornographic fantasies ;
11. Hustling and ageism in the films Eastern Boys
and Brüder der Nacht ;
12. Ageing women on screen: Disgust, disdain and the
Times Up pushback ;
13. No Country for Old Men?: Representations of ageing
body in contemporary pornography
Cosimo Marco Scarcelli, PhD, is Assistant Professor at FISPPA, University of Padua. His research interests deal with digital media with a focus on young people, intimacy, gender, sexuality, digital literacy and media education. He is chair of the Gender and Communication section of ECREA.
Despina Chronaki (Dr) is Adjunct Lecturer at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Hellenic Open University (MA in Journalism Studies). Her research focuses on audiences of popular culture, childrens experiences with media, ethics and porn studies.
Sara De Vuyst is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University. Her research interests are feminist media studies, issues of gender, sexuality and ageing, and gender inequality in journalism. She is vice-chair of the ECREA Gender and Communication section and currently working on the LiLI project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 851666).
Sergio Villanueva Baselga is Assistant Professor at the University of Barcelona. His research focuses on the relationship between media and health identities, stigma and resilience, considering that media, film and culture are part of the social determinants of health. He is vice-chair of the Film Studies section of ECREA.
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