Mia Lövheim, from the University of Uppsala, offered the conference a review of the religion, media and culture studies tradition, noting that the question of gender is still underrated. Here are my notes on her talk.

  • Gender as blindspot in research
  • Studies on media and meaning making has been top-up, where the men are
  • Any gender studies have been based on textual representations of gender
  • Studies needed on
    • Audience reception of media text
    • If and how gender matters in reception of text
    • Complex relations between men and women in making meaning by making media
  • Intersection studies between gender and class, ethnicity, geography etc
    • Lacking an important starting point: asymmetry of power
  • First decade of research publications in media, religion and culture missed out on gender
    • Main agenda was establish a new discipline
    • Gender always been offside issue in any discipline
    • Intersection stays important component in research