fishers, surfers and casters

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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