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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Communication & Journalism
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr Odelia Dayan-Gabay
Coordinator Office Hours:
Mondays, 10:00-11:00
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Odelia Dayan-Gabay
Course/Module description:
The course will focus on the interrelationships between the media and the issue and social diversity from a gender perspective. We will examine various aspects of self-representation in social media and institutional media, and we will ask questions relating to issues such as identity politics, political correctness, hashtag activism, exclusion, agenda setting, partial and under-representation, stereotyping, intersectionality, silence, Media representations of violence against women, ethnicity, gender and status and more. We will refer to various contemporary test cases, prominent cases of gender violence in the public discourse, social protests, women and men in politics and more. We will refer to and analyze (based on academic articles) various media texts throughout the course such as: reality shows, advertisements, tweets, Facebook posts, Instagram photos, newspaper articles, satire programs, broadcast articles, comments (talkbacks) and more.
Course/Module aims:
1. To gain insights into social representation in media.
2. To examine different modes of representation in traditional media and social network.
3. To analyze local cases in view of other events, considering the specific group and the Israeli culture.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
1. Identity construction on different axis – gender, religion, ethnic, national.
2. Basic terminology: politics of identity, pollical correctness, hashtag activism, exclusion, agenda setting, partial and mis-representation, stereotypes, cross sectionally, silencing, voice.
3. Conducting and presenting a case study based on academic studies.
Attendance requirements(%):
90
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Learning is based on discussion of case studies based on methodological and theoretical studies.
Use of visual texts of events or artistic performances. Materials will be available to students ahead of time in order to allow meaningful discussions. Topics chosen by students will be the basis of the course schedule. In online course the number of topics will be minimize in order to focus.
Course/Module Content:
Initial range of topics, according to students’ choice:
Gender: non-binary continuum; masculinity; egalitarian language; representation and performance; gender violence.
Religiosity: representation in popular culture; the worlds of learning and study; haredi cinema; safe environments (e.g., internet).
Ethnicity: Mizrahi-Ashkenazi families; Arab Jews; ‘arsim and frehot; poetics of identity; migrants and refugees.
Nationality: Linguistic policies; Jerusalem as challenging space; linguistic landscape; authenticity and appropriation (e.g., hummus).
Required Reading:
1 - מבוא, מושגי יסוד
חומרי קריאה אלה ישמשו אותנו במהלך הקורס ויסייעו בהכנת העבודות – אין חובת קריאה.
קמה, ע' ופירסט, ע' (2015). על ההדרה: ייצוגים תקשורתיים של 'אחרים'. תל אביב: רסלינג. בעיקר פרק 5: "ייצוגי נשים", עמ' 164-131.
Gill, Rosalind. 2007. "Gender and the media," chapter 1 in her book, Gender and the Media. Polity Press, pp. 7-41.
Kearney, Mary C. (2012). "Introduction," in The gender and media reader, edited by M. C. Kearney. Routeledge. 1-21.
2 – מגדר, אתניות, פוליטיקה: הצטלבותיות
Lachover, E. (2017). "Signs of change in media representation of women in Israeli politics: Leading and Peripheral women contenders." Journalism 18, 446-463.
Kostelka, Filip, André Blais, and Elisabeth Gidengil.(2019). "Has the gender gap in voter turnout really disappeared ?" West European Politics 42, no. 3, 437-463.
3 – פמיניזם, מגוון חברתי, אי שוויון בתקשורת
אהרוני, מ' (2023). סיקור מחאת 2020–2021 נגד ראש הממשלה בעיתונות וברשתות החברתיות: לקראת שינוי תקשורתי פרדיגמטי ושינוי תפיסתי של מובילי המחאה. מסגרות מדיה 23, 39-80.. https://doi.org/10.57583/MF.2023.23.10030
לביא, נ' (2023). תרבות הפקה ואי־שוויון בתעשיית הטלוויזיה בישראל. מסגרות מדיה 23, https://doi.org/10.57583/MF.2023.23.10038
עברי, י' (2008). גרוטסקה אותנטית: ערסים ופרחות בתרבות הישראלית. הכיוון מזרח, 16, 26-31.
ששון לוי, א' ושושנה, א' (2014). השתכנזות: על פרפורמנס אתני וכישלונו. תיאוריה וביקורת 42, 71-98.
Levy, Lital. 2017. The Arab Jew debate: Media, culture, politics. History. Journal of Levantine Studies, 7 (1) 79-103.
Katz, N., & Nossek, H. (2020). Watching televised representations and self-identity of national minorities: Israeli Arab citizens’ perceptions of their media representations on Israeli television. Communications, 45(4), 463–478.
4 - אלימות מגדרית לסוגיה בראי התקשורת
אלון-תירוש, מ' וברגר א' (2019). מי ניצל מינית את מי? מסגורן של הנערות בסיקור העיתונאי של פרשת "הזמר המפורסם והקטינות". מגדר, 6, https://www.migdarjournal.com/blank-6
בן-עטר, א' דיין-גבאי, א', יונס ג' (2021). "הם משלנו" — סיקור תקשורתי דינמי של אונס קבוצתי מקרה איה נאפה. קשר 57. 8-30. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27097943
דיין-גבאי, א' (2020). איזה מין נשיא: פרשת משה קצב כנקודת מפנה בשיח התקשורת על עבירות מין בישראל. מסגרות מדיה, 19, 43-70.
להב, ה' (2008). "מקרה מזעזע": סיקור תקשורתי של תקיפות מיניות בישראל. איגרתא, 10, מכון הרצוג: אוניברסיטת תל אביב.
Benedict, H. (1992). Virgin or vamp: How the press covers sex crimes. Oxford: Oxford University.
Hindes, S. & Fileborn, B. (2019). "Girl power gone wrong": #MeToo, Aziz Ansari, and media reporting of (grey area) sexual violence. Feminist Media Studies, doi:10.1080/14680777.2019.1606843
Sacks, M., Ackerman, A. R., & Shlosberg, A. (2018). Rape Myths in the Media: A Content Analysis of Local Newspaper Reporting in the United States. Deviant Behavior, 39(9), 1237–1246.
Additional Reading Material:
Grading Scheme :
Essay / Project / Final Assignment / Referat 80 %
Active Participation / Team Assignment 5 %
Submission assignments during the semester: Exercises / Essays / Audits / Reports / Forum / Simulation / others 5 %
Attendance / Participation in Field Excursion 10 %
Additional information:
Course requirements and grade structure
1. Attendance and participation, 15% of the final grade.
Participation includes discussions during class or alternatively comments in the forum.
2. Research work that will be submitted in two different stages:
2.1. Choosing a topic for research. Submitting a topic for approval counts for 5%.
2.2. Course summary work to be submitted by August 25. 80% of the final grade.
No final work will be accepted without the preliminary stage of approval of the research topic by the lecturer.
For the benefit of seminar work - (must be confirmed with the lecturer by the second lesson).
Writers of seminar papers are also required to submit a summary paper in the course - with the coordination and approval of the lecturer.
A seminar paper will be 20-25 pages in length, will analyze a phenomenon and its representation in the media while basing itself on 20 academic sources (at least). At least half of them will be current, from 2014 onwards.
Seminar work earns 4 credits in addition to the two credits of the course itself.
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