Book Review of Gender and Popular Culture and Spanish Traslation of the Chapter Digital Culture, Social Media and Gender

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https://doi.org/10.18002/cg.i17.7251

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review, book, consumption, digital activism, convergence, culture, platforms, gender, translation, Gender and Popular Culture, Digital Culture, Social Media and Gender

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Abstract

Settled in the field of Feminist Media Studies Gender and Popular Culture (Milestone and Meyer, 2021) analyses the relationship between gender, media and culture. Since its first edition the book has become a major bibliographic reference amongst the English-speaking academia. After a brief book review the reader will find a Spanish translation of the seventh chapter, devoted to media consumption and use. There the authors: (1) asses, from an intersectional viewpoint, the key concepts used to study digital media (prosumer, convergence, audience, etc.); (2) enquire in the connections of media consumption and gender identity invoking etnography and discourse analysis; and (3) drawing on hashtag feminism discuss the theoretical categories with which new participation forms have been thought (collective intelligence, slacktivism, clicktivism, e-tactics and so on).

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Isabel Vasen, Universidad de Buenos Aires - Argentina

Es estudiante de grado de Ciencias de la Comunicación en la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Se desempeña como investigadorx con una beca estímulo UBACyT bajo la dirección de María Rosa del Coto y Amparo Rocha Alonso y como ayudante de segunda en Semiótica de los Medios II.

Katie Milestone, Manchester Metropolitan University - Inglaterra

Es doctora y catedrática en la Universidad Metropolitana de Manchester (Reino Unido), donde dirige el Máster en Culturas Urbanas Europeas. Desde los estudios culturales y la sociología ha investigado en la relación entre género, música popular y urbanismo.

Anneke Meyer, Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU)

Es doctora y catedrática en la Universidad Metropolitana de Manchester (Reino Unido), donde dirige el departamento de Sociología. Sus investigaciones han incurrido en los modos en que los discursos mediáticos moralizan y legitiman violencias interseccionales (pedofilia, islamofobia, violencia de género y abusos sexuales).

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Published

2022-06-30

How to Cite

Vasen, I., Milestone, K. and Meyer, A. (2022) “Book Review of Gender and Popular Culture and Spanish Traslation of the Chapter Digital Culture, Social Media and Gender”, Cuestiones de género: de la igualdad y la diferencia, (17), pp. 452–480. doi: 10.18002/cg.i17.7251.