Category: Themes to discuss

I would really like to discuss practical ways to make a change through the media. First – counting heads in newspapers, interviewing female experts, what other practical tricks are there in order to create more gender equal news?

Second – what can be done in the workplace to create a safe and equal environment for everyone? How do we get people to care about this issue, what support is needed in order to dare to report an assault, how can we prevent sexist jargong, and so on. I’m sure everyone has good – and bad – examples to share.

Something I would like to discuss is the interview situation. Are we, as journalists, biased when we’re interviewing someone, based on the gender of that person? Do we ask different questions based on perceived gender? If that is the case, why? People are often portrayed differently in media based on their gender, maybe there could be some change if we as journalists examine the way we interview people?

I hope to discuss the #metoo movement and it´s impact on the media landscape.
I´ve just taken my exam and started my first full-time job as a journalist. I´m a 24 year old woman in a media world with a recently exposed dark side. After the #metoo movement it seems that sexism and sexual harassment in the media world are more rule than exception. I figur it would be interesting to discuss the impact this movement has had on the media landscape. Can we, “as scientists” see a changing attitude against sexism and sexual harassment? How does the media groups work to create a better working climate for women after #metoo? Are they even?

/ Elsa Henriksdotter 

I have the feeling that this kind of reflexions on gender and media stays in the academic field when targeting the audience would help. I would like to discuss with everyone about the ways – you think or have already tested – to raise awareness among the regular audience around us  like our relatives and friends to spot gender stereotypes in media? How can we make people more aware that representations of men and women in the media are for the majority biased, stereotyped and that this is impacting everyone’s vision of masculinity and femininity?

I am interested in looking at the intersection of race and gender in media coverage. What is the power of mainstream media in representing race, gender, class, ethnicity and religion? How do the mainstream discourses influence societies and follow an ideology? I would also like to analyze the impact of gendered minorities producing media content, emphasizing how women in high-level positions and their representation (without recreating stereotypes) can influence what the public see and who is seen in the media.

I would like to discuss the expected roles the genders are suppose to adapt and how they effect workenviroments in the media field. Are men being told that they need to be tough and therefore they are able to negotiate larger salaries, or does everyone simple give men more respect because they are men? Is it a combination of both? How do you fix that? Also, are there points where gender roles hurt men as well? Have men in the media industry a harder time to ask for help if stress overcomes them?

I would be interested in discussing the differences in pay gaps across Europe. In particular, to look at the factors that can determine a high or low percentage of pay gap in certain countries, depending on its cultural and political environment.

An algorithm is as clever as the person who developed it. Therefore, if a machine is going to learn by itself, what at the beginning is just a small error could become very soon an enormous one.

Due to the increase role new technologies (notably the ones using AI or ML) are having in todays society, even in sectors or areas as legal judgment and social affairs – where a context analysis should be mandatory – it would be very interesting to understand how gender biases are assessed.

The inner danger of these new technologies is that they could worse the stereotypes perception in their negative sense because they are developed by human beings.

I could refer, to stay in the media sector for instance, on how posts appears on social medias, how they analyze our reactions and behavior in order to, at a certain point, better know our inner thoughts than ourselves.

Because, if “human kind cannot bear very much reality” (I do not know what the author meant with the word reality, but I will refer to it – in this proper context – as “given and assumed datas – dogma”), certainly a computer can, and it can go very very far with it as well. What will then the consequences be? What for the price?

I would like to cover gender quotas: which media companies implement them? What types of gender quotas are in place? How effective are these quotas, and how do we judge what makes a quota effective?