Insight Podcasts
Podcast: Bringing the Future into Focus: Changing Gender Stereotyping on Screen
SexMoneyMedia 2010: Special Presentation This is a rare opportunity to learn about the trailblazing work of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media and its programming arm See Jane, which engages film and television creators to dramatically increase the percentages of female characters and reduce gender stereotyping in media made for children 11 and under. The Institute is dedicated to changing the way media represents women and girls, to encouraging... Read More
Podcast: Youtube: The highs and lows of user-generated digital possibilities
SexMoneyMedia 2010 Plenary Known as the poster-child for freedom of expression and the democratizing possibilities afforded by user-generated digital content, YouTube provides free access to production and distribution of media while withholding other functionality sorely needed for meaningful personal and communal expression and activism. Feminist media has long made demands for expanded access alongside the growing of community, goals, history and... Read More
Podcast: Culture and Commerce in the Digital Age: A Conversation with Canada’s Leading Women.
SexMoneyMedia 2010: Keynote Panel A rare dialogue with some of Canada’s leading women in media as they discuss their careers, and the challenge of balancing the forces of the market with our desire for art and public culture as Canada develops its digital economic strategy. Access to our stories, screens and markets lies at the heart of our national interest in public media policy. In this time of unprecedented change, how can the Canadian public... Read More
Podcast: Rosalind Gill and “The New Normal”: A Bad Case of Déjà vu?
SexMoneyMedia 2010: Special Presentation SexMoneyMedia got off to a great start with Dr. Rosalind Gill’s fantastic talk exploring the ways in which women’s inequality persists in the media industries despite the many gains of second wave feminism. She noted that statistically, little has changed since Gaye Tuchman’s study on the “symbolic annihilation” of women on- screen; 40 years later, and the research reports coming out of the Geena... Read More
Podcast: Where are the women in the content/technology mashup?
SexMoneyMedia 2010, Plenary Panel Presenters: Sara Diamond (Moderator), Ana Serrano, Michelle Perras, Lynda-Brown Ganzert, Stephanie MacKendrick, Sarah Prevette Following Rosalind Gill’s plenary, Sara Diamond offered up an equally compelling and highly informative plenary session. The panel was comprised of well-respected women who are committed to raising women’s visibility within the technology and content sectors. They panelists made it clear... Read More
