Handbook of Media and Gender

Johanna Dorer is Assistant Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication and was member of the equal opportunity commission at the University of Vienna. Her research includes gender, intersectionality and media, media theory, journalism, non commercial media and public relations.Brigitte Geiger is a freelance media and communication scientist and long-term lecturer at the Universities of Vienna, Salzburg and Klagenfurt. Her work focusses on women's and gender studies, feminist media and public spheres, gender and violence. She is a co-founder and chairwoman of STICHWORT. Archives of Women’s and Lesbians’ Movements in Vienna.Brigitte Hipfl is Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Her research explores media, gender, race and the affective dynamics of media with a focus on issues related to migration, solidarity, and memory work. Viktorija Ratković is a postdoc researcher at the Centre for Peace Research and Peace Education, University of Klagenfurt, Department of Educational Science. Her research perspectives include critical migration research, peace and conflict studies and gender studies, while her work focuses on peace education, postmigrant media, and conviviality.

• Theories, models, approaches.- Epistemology, methodology and methods.- Overview: Media production, media content, media reception.- Historical media research.- Media in the context of politics and economics.- Women's movements and feminism and/or in the media.- Relations of violence and dominance and/or in the media.- Differences and/or in the media.- Media culture - popular culture.- Future of feminist media research.