The Handbook of Gender, Communication, and Human Rights

A timely feminist intervention on gender, communication, and women’s human rights

The Handbook on Gender, Communication, and Women’s Human Rights engages contemporary debates on women’s rights, democracy, and neoliberalism through the lens of feminist communication scholarship. The first major collection of its kind published in the COVID-19 era, this unique volume frames a wide range of issues relevant to the gender and communication agenda within a human rights framework.

An international panel of feminist academics and activists examines how media, information, and communication systems contribute to enabling, ignoring, questioning, or denying women’s human and communication rights. Divided into four parts, the Handbook covers governance and policy, systems and institutions, advocacy and activism, and content, rights, and freedoms. Throughout the text, the contributors demonstrate the need for strong feminist critiques of exclusionary power structures, highlight new opportunities and challenges in promoting change, illustrate both the risks and rewards associated with digital communication, and much more.

• Offers a state-of-the-art exploration of the intersection between gender, communication, and women’s rights
• Addresses both core and emerging topics in feminist media scholarship and research
• Discusses the vital role of communication systems and processes in women's struggles to claim and exercise their rights
• Analyzes how the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated structures of inequality and intensified the spread of disinformation
• Explores feminist-based concepts and approaches that could enrich communication policy at all levels

Part of the Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research series, The Handbook of Gender, Communication, and Women’s Human Rights is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, journalism, feminist studies, gender studies, global studies, and human rights programs at institutions around the world. It is also an invaluable resource for academics, researchers, policymakers, and civil society and human rights activists.

Margaret Gallagher is an independent researcher who has published widely on gender, media, and communication rights. She started her career at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), before moving to the Open University, where she was Deputy Head of the Audio-Visual Media Research Group. She has consulted for the United Nations, the European Commission, the Council of Europe, and several international development agencies and broadcasting organizations. She serves on the editorial boards of International Communication Gazette and Media Development.

Aimée Vega Montiel is a researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Sciences and Humanities at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She is Co-Chair of the UNESCO UNITWIN on Gender, Media and ICTs, and Chair of the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG). She is a past Vice-President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and has served as an expert for the Council of Europe Recommendation of Gender Equality in the Audiovisual Sector.

1. Introduction: Gender, communication and women’s human rights Margaret Gallagher and Aimée Vega Montiel     Part 1. Governance and policy 2. Gender dimensions of communication governance: Perspectives, principles and practices Claudia Padovani   3. Communicating gender in global development Karin  Gwinn Wilkins   4. Gendered disinformation and platform accountability Margaret Gallagher   5. From media reform to data justice: Situating women’s rights as human rights Leslie Regan Shade     Part 2. Systems and institutions 6. Gender, race and locality: Intersectionality in media and communication Laura Guimarães Corrêa   7. Gender dimensions of communication industries: A political economy analysis  Carolyn Byerly   8. Power in AI: Inequality within and without the algorithm Kate Devlin   9. Challenges for women journalists in the age of Covid, and union and media repression: one trade unionist’s perspective Mindy Ran   10. Women and the news: Reimagining journalism  Maria João Silveirinha   11. Revisiting and unpacking the #MeToo moment Ammu Joseph     Part 3. Content, rights and freedoms 12. Promoting gender equality in media content: A limitation or extension of freedom of expression? Maria Edström and Eva-Maria Svensson   13. Digital culture, online misogyny and gender-based violence Debbie Ging   14. Media do not represent me: Young women’s social media lives Rosalind Gill  and Whitney Francois-Cull   15. Gendering surveillance from a South Asian perspective Shmyla Khan   16. Pornography in feminist theory Rosa Cobo Bedía   17. Violence against women in and through the media and digital technologies  Aimée Vega Montiel     Part 4. Strategies, advocacy and activism   18. The Feminist Principles of the Internet: A framework for feminist organizing and research in the digital age Jan Moolman and Christy Alves Nascimento   19. Lessons learned from communication strategies created by indigenous women  Karla Prudencio   20. Gender equality in and through the media in Southern Africa Tarisai Nyamweda   21. Digital media and feminist activism in Latin America: Cyberfeminism 3.0 Graciela Natansohn   22. A feminist critique of gender mainstreaming in journalism and communication education Yanet Martínez-Toledo, Lucía Gloria Vázquez Rodríguez and María Soledad Vargas   23. Building the evidence for feminist advocacy and awareness-raising: The Global Media Monitoring Project Sarah Macharia   24. Transnational feminist organising and advocacy for gender justice and women’s rights Dinah Musindarwezo, Sanyu Awori and Felogene Anumo 1. Introduction: Gender, communication and women’s human rights Margaret Gallagher and Aimée Vega Montiel     Part 1. Governance and policy

2. Gender dimensions of communication governance: Perspectives, principles and practices Claudia Padovani   3. Communicating gender in global development Karin  Gwinn Wilkins   4. Gendered disinformation and platform accountability Margaret Gallagher   5. From media reform to data justice: Situating women’s rights as human rights Leslie Regan Shade     Part 2. Systems and institutions

6. Gender, race and locality: Intersectionality in media and communication Laura Guimarães Corrêa   7. Gender dimensions of communication industries: A political economy analysis  Carolyn Byerly   8. Power in AI: Inequality within and without the algorithm Kate Devlin   9. Challenges for women journalists in the age of Covid, and union and media repression: one trade unionist’s perspective Mindy Ran   10. Women and the news: Reimagining journalism  Maria João Silveirinha   11. Revisiting and unpacking the #MeToo moment Ammu Joseph     Part 3. Content, rights and freedoms

12. Promoting gender equality in media content: A limitation or extension of freedom of expression? Maria Edström and Eva-Maria Svensson   13. Digital culture, online misogyny and gender-based violence Debbie Ging   14. Media do not represent me: Young women’s social media lives Rosalind Gill  and Whitney Francois-Cull   15. Gendering surveillance from a South Asian perspective Shmyla Khan   16. Pornography in feminist theory Rosa Cobo Bedía   17. Violence against women in and through the media and digital technologies  Aimée Vega Montiel     Part 4. Strategies, advocacy and activism   18. The Feminist Principles of the Internet: A framework for feminist organizing and research in the digital age Jan Moolman and Christy Alves Nascimento   19. Lessons learned from communication strategies created by indigenous women  Karla Prudencio   20. Gender equality in and through the media in Southern Africa Tarisai Nyamweda   21. Digital media and feminist activism in Latin America: Cyberfeminism 3.0 Graciela Natansohn   22. A feminist critique of gender mainstreaming in journalism and communication education Yanet Martínez-Toledo, Lucía Gloria Vázquez Rodríguez and María Soledad Vargas   23. Building the evidence for feminist advocacy and awareness-raising: The Global Media Monitoring Project Sarah Macharia   24. Transnational feminist organising and advocacy for gender justice and women’s rights Dinah Musindarwezo, Sanyu Awori and Felogene Anumo