Where are the researches on gender in Communication?

An analysis of production in Portuguese

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https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-58442023111pt

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Gender, Communication, Feminisms, Content analysis, Theoretical frameworks

Abstract

This article presents the analysis of scientific publications on the themes of gender and communication from the beginning of the fourth feminist wave (2013) until 2019. Therefore, this text is divided into two methodological phases. In the first one, inspired by Systematic Review Protocols, we collected data in the SciELO database and found 71 texts from different areas. We refined the results and selected 15 articles for the second phase, the qualitative Content Analysis. The results obtained in the classification demonstrate that, although the texts deal with gender issues and mention several fourth-wave themes – such as harassment, gender violence, and intersectionality –, only four have a feminist approach. The corpus references show that the authors with more representativeness and citations are Joan Scott and Judith Butler, and they make it possible to affirm that there are little interactions within some areas (Sports, Communication, and Health). Nevertheless, they show the lack of dialogue that prevails in the set of research on these themes in Portuguese

Author Biographies

Juliana Inez Luiz de Souza, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Barcelona, Spain

Post-doctoral researcher in the INTERMAPS project, at the Department of Political and Social Sciences,
Pompeu Fabra University. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) and is a volunteer researcher at the Mediacultures, power and society Research Group at the UFPR and at the Group of Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Sciences (GEICS) of the University of Minho. Her main research interests include gender and sexual diversity policies, inequalities and discursive disputes in the media, parliament, and education.

Michelly Santos de Carvalho, Universidade Federal do Maranhão. Imperatriz – MA, Brazil

Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Maranhão, Imperatriz campus, where she is the coordinator of the journalism course and of the research group Interdisciplinary Center for Study, Research and Extension in Communication, Gender, and Feminisms – Maria Firmina dos Reis (Winner of the Luís Beltrão Prize in Communication Sciences 2022 – Innovative Group). She holds a PhD in Communication Sciences from the University of Minho/UFRJ. She coordinates the Extension Project “Decolonial Black Academy: Antiracist Epistemologies and Methodologies” and she is an adviser to Brazilian Network of Journalists and Communicators with a Gender and Race Vision – RIPVG Brazil. 

Daniela Rocha Drummond, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Brazil

Post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Social and Political Studies of the State, University of Rio de Janeiro (IESP/UERJ), Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support in the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) Postdoc Scholarship Note 10. She holds a PhD in Political Science (specialization in Political Communication) from the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil with a sandwich period at Lusófona University of Porto, Portugal. She is vice coordinator at Laboratory on Media and the Public Sphere (LEMEP), member of the Manchetômetro project, and a researcher at FEMglocal – Glocal feminist movements: interactions and contradictions (PTDC/COM-CSS/4049/2021) project and in the Mediacultures, power and society Research Group at the UFPR.

Carla Preciosa Braga Cerqueira, Universidade Lusófona. Porto, Portugal

PhD in Communication Sciences – specialized in Communication Psychology from the University of Minho, Portugal (2012). Currently she is an Associate Professor at Lusófona University, an integrated researcher at CICANT – The Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies and collaborator at CECS – Communication and Society Research Centre. Her research interests include gender, feminisms, intersectionality, NGOs, activism, digital citizenship, and media studies. She integrates diverse national and international research projects; she is the principal investigator of the project “FEMglocal – Glocal feminist movements: interactions and contradictions (PTDC/COM-CSS/4049/2021) and the project “Network Voices: Women’s participation in development processes” (COFAC/ILIND/CICANT/1/2021). She is the chair of the Research & Policy Committee of GAMAG – Global Alliance on Media and Gender. She integrates the board of APEM – Portuguese Association of Women’s Studies and she is part of RTP’s Opinion Council (mandate 2021-2025) as a member appointed by the NGOs to the Advisory Council of the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality. She integrates the Ethics Commitee of ECREA.

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2023-10-23

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SOUZA, J. I. L. de; CARVALHO, M. S. de; DRUMMOND, D. R.; CERQUEIRA, C. P. B. Where are the researches on gender in Communication? An analysis of production in Portuguese. Intercom: Revista Brasileira de Ciências da Comunicação, São Paulo, v. 46, p. e2023111, 2023. DOI: 10.1590/1809-58442023111pt. Disponível em: https://revistas.intercom.org.br/index.php/revistaintercom/article/view/4249. Acesso em: 17 may. 2024.

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Vol. 46 (2023)

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