CMN 3104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Liberal Feminism, Meritocracy, Content Analysis

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 3104
• Professor: Dina Salha

Document Summary

The field of communication studies has traditionally dismissed the gender question as trivial, or incorporated it through a view of the sexless audience". The audience"s intention is to demonstrate how a critical perspective can inform the construction of a course in media studies centered around the gender issue. What they need, and what they feel they need. The unequal distribution of control over system of communications and the wide pattern of inequality in the distribution of wealth and power. How communication systems maintain, reproduce and continually legitimate the prevailing structure of advantage and inequality as natural and inevitable. The sources of social dissent (disagreement) and political struggle of how communication systems contribute to the dialectical (logical) relations between challenge and incorporation of disadvantaged groups within the established order. Much of the work that has dominated the media and women area has been theoretically and methodologically aligned with the dominant paradigm of.