Course Description

Feminist scholars, researchers and teachers have paid a significant amount of attention to the importance of various media and information sources  as sites for and of challenges to issues of power, class, race, gender and sexuality in culture and society, whether expressed in information locations, media cultural products, media industries or media technologies.  This seminar examines a range of feminist theories, research and interpretive studies concerning library and information studies, print and broadcast media, film and the Internet, and, through feminist/cyberfeminist lenses, engages questions of representation, structures of media organizations and production. We will engage various frameworks and methods, e.g. discourse and content analysis, audience and viewer reception, etc.  Participants in this seminar will have the opportunity to read and critique existing research and engage in creating new understandings. These are just a few of the areas we will explore in our engagement with and production of feminist approaches to information and media studies.

First priority for enrolling in this course are those in FIMS Thesis-based programs.