Media And Gender 2012

The tasks for the course

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For 6 credits students are asked to do:

80 % presence and active participation
Essay (5-10 pages) or learning diary (learning diary is notes from lectures reflected through literature, lectures) or own artistic or documentary media project related to the themes of the course. Deadline for the essay, diary or media production is 15th of March 2012.
Team work: During the courses students will read an given article in 2-4 students team.The content and core ideas of the article will be presented in the last session on 16th of February.

Literature and scouces for inspiration:

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Mäkelä, Anna, Puustinen Liina, Ruoho Iiris (toim) 2006 Sukupuolishow. Johdatus feministiseen mediatutkimukseen. Gaudeamus
Herkman, Juha, (2007) Kriittinen mediakasvatus. Osuuskunta vastapaino
Harcourt Wendy (toim.) 1999, Women@internet, Creating new cultures in cyberspace. London.
Kantola, Anu, Moring, Inka, Väliverronen, Esa (toim). (2003). Media-analyysi. Testistä tulkintaan. Palmia.
Kinnunen Taina, Puuronen Anne (toim.) (2006) Seksuaalinen ruumis, kulttuuritieteeliset lähestymistavat (Luku III Kuluttajan katse) Gaudeamus.
Vänskä Annamari, 2006, Vikuroivia vilkaisuja. Ruumis, sukupuoli, seksuaalisuus ja visuaalisen kulttuurin tutkimus. Taidehistoriallisia tutkimuksia 35. Helsinki.
Wirman Hanna, Näkökulma naispelaajuuteen. Naiset osallistujina (2006) Teoksessa: Inkinen, Karkulehto, Mäenpää, Timonen, Minne matka luova talous? Rajalla, Oulu.
Töyry, Maija, Varhaiset naistenlehdet ja naisten elämän ristiriidat. Neuvotteluja lukijasopimuksesta"Väitöskirja Helsingin yliopisto, Viestinnän laitos, Viestinnän julkaisuja 10, 2005. Gummerus Kirjapaino Oy.
Butler, Judith, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, 1990 (suom. Hankala sukupuoli: feminismi ja identiteetin kumous, Gaudeamus 2006)
Oksala Johanna, Werner Laura (toim.) 2005. Feministinen tietäminen. Gaudeamus

Preliminary course program 2012

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MT 10 MEDIA CULTURE
Assessment criteria: passed/failed
for CBM / Visuaalisen kulttuurin maisteriohjelma

The learning objectives are on the skills to apply different methods student’s own scientific or artistic work. The aim is that students will get critical and analytical understanding about the built-in sexual mechanisms in the media.

Content: Lectures, discussions, essay or learning diary or one’s own artistic production from the theme of the course. For completed course: 80 % presence and active participation and an written essay or earning diary (i.e. notes from lectures reflected through some project, weather on going, own or done project) or own artistic or documentary media project related to the themes of the course.

During the courses students will read an given article in 2-4 students team.The content and core ideas of the article will be presented in the last session on 17th of February.

Program spring 2012:

18.1. 10-13 Marjo Mäenpää: Introduction to feminist research and gender studies, gender, gaze and power (Visual Culture, pleasure and cinema, Laura Mulvey and John Berger) lecture as pdf-file (in Finnish)

26.1. 10-13 Karoliina Kiil, TaT "Pervot pidot vaalimarkkinoilla" Ks. artikkeli "Mustekala Info" (Queer theory and politics)

2.2. 10-13 Anne Soronen FT "Sukupuolen ulottuvuudet lifestyle-mediassa. Esimerkkinä kodinmuutosohjelmat"(how are representations of the gendered self produced in home makeover shows) (The lecture is in Finnish as pdf-file)

9.2. 10-13 Sally Potter, Orlando (film based a novel by Virgia Woolf). Teams working with their article, preparing the presentation

16.2. 10-13 Presentation of the team work and articles

(source of the images: http://owni.eu/2010/11/08/top-48-ads-that-would-never-be-allowed-today /)