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So pleased to kick off the new 2025 podcast series – Frames and Lenses – which has been set up by the School of Liberal Studies and Media, UPESs India.  I was invited to talk on the topic of gender, media and politics and you can here the podcast here, broadcast on 6 July on Spotify. Interesting to consider the parallels between the experiences of women politicians in the Global North and the Global South. Thanks to Kaustav Padmapati for the invitation.

I’m pleased to announce that, together with my wonderful colleague Valentina Cardo, we are working with Exeter University Press to launch a new book series, Contemporary Debates in Gender and Media. The Contemporary Debates on Gender and Media book series will offer a welcoming home for scholarly work that examines the complex relationship between gender and media, exploring how the changing media landscape is transforming how gender is represented and how different audiences consume and produce media, both formally and informally.  The series has a wide and expansive scope and will consider proposals which focuses on any aspect of the gender-media relationship. We are particularly open to research on less-established topics such as gender and intersectional politics in popular media, how elite women navigate online spaces, gender-based discrimination in media industries, how digital media is being harnessed by activists to challenge gender stereotypes but also how it’s being weaponised to promote different forms of anti-feminist backlash. Additionally, given the exponential development of AI and associated emergent technologies over the past few years and the ways in which algorithmic logic can uncritically replicate gender bias, the series is keen to see proposals which consider the power of AI to (re)articulate and reproduce traditional gender-based stereotypes but also, more positively, is being used to challenges them. The series editors recognise that much of the extant scholarship (and thus the visibility of particular ‘knowledges’) on the gender-media nexus privilege research undertaken in the global North and we are particularly keen to welcome proposals which focus on the global South and/or which use a postcolonial lens to interrogate specific contexts of gendered media in any part of the world. If anyone is interested in pitching an idea for a book in the series, please get in touch.