Globalization, Gender, and Media

Formations of the Sexual and Violence in Understanding Globalization

By (author) Tuija Parikka

Publication date:

29 August 2016

Length of book:

152 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9781498510622

Globalization, Gender, and Media tackles the emergence of “sexy violence” imagery and the coalescence of the sexual and violent meanings in contemporary global mainstream news, television, film, and social media. Tuija Parikka analyzes how such imagery advances particular interpretations of globalization, and the role of gender in such projects. Cases range from serious news journalism and film to social media spectacles, brought under the umbrellas of media production, contents, and perception. These versatile cases introduce issues revealing the limits of Western freedom discourse in the social media; universalizing an idea of motherhood and ethnicity in news production; time, home, and class in the formation of global imbalances of power online and in reality TV; instability of sex and gender in discourses of rape and porn; politicizing majority-minority relations in the social media.

Globalization, Gender, and Media emphasizes the need to consider the interconnectedness and material - discursive aspects of globalization and the reality of gender in the media.

Chapter 1: Sexy Violence in the Global Media
Chapter 2: Globalization of the Intimate Sphere and Gender in Media Production
Chapter 3: Globalization of the Sexual and Gender in the Mainstream Media
Chapter 4: Globalization of the Sexual and Gender in Social Media
Chapter 5: Globalization of the Body and Gender in Media Perception
Chapter 6: Reconfiguring Globalization of Gender in the Media

An interesting and engaging new contribution to the study of ‘sexy violence’. At a moment when boundaries between public and private, bodies and technologies, and media producers and consumers are breaking down, Parikka brings a fresh perspective to debates about gender and the media, with a strong focus on globalization.