Collection: Contemporary Debates on Gender and Media

Series editors: Karen Ross, Professor of Gender and Media, Newcastle University, UK and Valentina Cardo, Associate Professor of Politics and Identity, University of Southampton, UK.

The Contemporary Debates on Gender and Media book series offers a welcoming home for scholarly work that examines the complex relationship between gender and media, exploring how the changing media landscape is transforming the ways in which gender is represented and how different audiences consume and produce media, both formally and informally. The series has a wide and expansive scope and will consider proposals which focuses on any aspect of the gender-media relationship. We are particularly open to research on less-established topics such as gender and intersectional analyses, how women professionals navigate online spaces, gender-based discrimination in media industries, and how digital media is being harnessed by activists to challenge gender stereotypes but also how it’s being weaponised to promote different forms of anti-feminist backlash. Additionally, given the exponential development of AI and associated emergent technologies over the past few years and the ways in which algorithmic logic can uncritically replicate gender bias, the series is keen to see proposals which consider the power of AI to (re)articulate and reproduce traditional gender-based stereotypes but also, more positively, how it is being used to challenge them. The series editors recognise that much of the extant scholarship (and thus the visibility of particular ‘knowledges’) on the gender-media nexus privileges research undertaken in the global North, and we are particularly keen to welcome proposals which focus on the global South and/or which use a postcolonial lens to interrogate specific contexts of gendered media in any part of the world.

To submit a book proposal and discuss your project, please contact the Series Editors:

Karen Ross (karen.ross@newcastle.ac.uk)

Valentina Cardo (v.m.cardo@soton.ac.uk)

Or Commissioning Editor Becky Taylor (b.taylor@exeterpress.co.uk)