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In the last thirty years feminist media scholarship has analysed media
systems as environments reproducing patriarchal structures that work
against gender equality in the media. Results of research at the
national and global scales have reported similar results: women are less
likely to work in top managerial positions in the media, on the average
women journalists are paid less than male, larger numbers of women are
engaged in precarious jobs than their male counterparts. Similarly
persistent are inequalities in media representation where portraying
women is often rife with stereotypes and pursuant of imaginings of
women's domesticity. In addition, studies have shown how audiences have
been constructed on perceptions that idealize women's roles in the
private sphere, reproducing women as consumers. Feminist media studies
have long been based on the idea that women's interests in the media are
different that those of males. Consequently, research has demonstrated
that women, when in leadership positions, can reform predominately
masculine conventions or, in journalistic work, produce "different"
news. Recently some scholars have been critical towards such "optimism"
arguing that it contributes to naturalization of stereotypical gender
roles, and have shown that women can work to reproduce the masculine
newsroom culture same as males do.

This conference is interested to explore various dimensions of gender
differentiation in contemporary media industry as they are reproduced at
the level of media production, representation and consumption. The aim
is in shifting the focus from researching relative underrepresentation
of women in the media to analyse structures and practices of engendered
media systems ˗ a shift from *[/]{.moz-txt-tag}what /to
/why[/]{.moz-txt-tag}*. As a corpus of existing literature addressing
gender in media at the "European periphery" is thinner if compared to
studies elsewhere, we particularly welcome contributions addressing
situations in Central-Eastern-South European countries (but not
exclusively). We specifically target studies addressing gender in
television and online media (but are not limited to these).

In particular, we are interested in contributions addressing:

- Feminization of media work,
- Media work environments and gender roles,
- Media policy from a gender perspective,
- Epistemologies addressing gender and media (political economy of
  communication, cultural studies, feminist analysis etc.),
- Attempts at reconciliation between "material" and "cultural" analysis,
- Gender representation in media texts,
- Intersectionality approach and masculinity studies in media system
  analysis,
- Gender differences in imagining audiences,
- Gender and media consumption.

We are interested in all of the above, and wish for the conference to
cover various topics. We also hope to attract a diverse range of
participants, from a variety of countries and backgrounds. There is no
fee for attending and participating at the conference. The conference
language is English.

Proposals for papers should include author's/authors' name,
institutional affiliation, email address, together with a paper title,
**abstract of 300 words** and a short biographical information. See
below how to prepare an abstract for this conference.

Proposals should be sent by **January 19, 2018** to
[mojca.frelih@mirovni-institut.si](mailto:mojca.frelih@mirovni-institut.si){.moz-txt-link-abbreviated
target="_blank"} and
[mojca.pajnik@mirovni-institut.si](mailto:mojca.pajnik@mirovni-institut.si){.moz-txt-link-abbreviated
target="_blank"}

Notification of acceptance by **March 2**

Full papers must be sent by **May 11**

We plan to look for possibilities to publish papers, presented at the
conference.

This conference is organized as part of the research project [Gender
Differentiation in Media
Industry](http://www.mirovni-institut.si/en/projects/gender-differentiation-in-media-industry/){target="_blank"}
funded by the Slovenian Research Agency.

Intermediary result of the project have recently been published in the
journal *Teorija in praksa*, vol. 54, no. 3-4, English abstracts (pp.
702-704) available at:
[https://www.fdv.uni-lj.si/docs/default-source/tip/tip_03-04_2017_povzetki.pdf](https://www.fdv.uni-lj.si/docs/default-source/tip/tip_03-04_2017_povzetki.pdf?sfvrsn=6){.moz-txt-link-freetext
target="_blank"}


In the last thirty years feminist media scholarship has analysed media systems as environments reproducing patriarchal structures that work against gender equality in the media.

CfP: International Conference &#8216;Gender Differentiation in Media Industries&#8217; @ The Peace Institute and Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, June 14-15, 2018. Deadline: Jan 19, 2018.

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CfP: International Conference ‘Gender Differentiation in Media Industries’ @ The Peace Institute and Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, June 14-15, 2018. Deadline: Jan 19, 2018.