GENDER, POWER & MEDIA OWNERSHIP/CONTROL

(Source: "Tongue In Chic" http://www.tonguechic.com/articles/2356-Nike-RED-Lace-Up-Save-Lives-AIDS-Awareness-Campaign


In the last sections, ("Gender and the Rise of the Modern State"; "Communities and Nations"; "Feminist Organizing Across Borders"; and "Ways of Seeing" there has been a great deal of emphasis on some of the underlying connections between the state, governmentality, privileged elites and social control.

Grewal and Kaplan provide you with a framework intended to strengthen your 'seeing' skills. For instance, in the article, "Making Things Mean: Cultural Representation in Objects," Catherin King gives us two ways to understand her own meaning: "Making Things Mean" (i.e. to asign meaning to certain visual representation, ideas, signs) and how certain privileged groups 'make things mean' (i.e. hurtful, oppressive, damaging, destructive) explicitly.

In "World Media" William Wresch draws your attention to quantitative and qualitative data and 'data making' informed by the political, economic and social agendas of states, nation-states, and the corporations which govern global markets. He makes specific ties between so-called "third world" nations/spaces and "first world" wealth and histories of colonialism/predator-ship by European and North American nation-states.

He raises the keyword of "cultural imperialism" and social control on a global scale.

Cynthia Enloe, in "On the Beach" calls upon you to critically engage in de-mystifying the connections between militarism, militarization, capitalism, colonialism, sexism and tourism--on a global scale, and she particularly challenges you to examine the difficult relationships between U.S. consumerism, global wars fought for resources, and sexual and gendered violence in colonial contexts.

Here are a few visuals to help you grapple with the role of corporate media and corporate social control, factors which are critical elements to any analysis of visual culture, power and gender.




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