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Throughout the academic year, the Center for Latinx Digital Media invites you to a series of weekly seminars held over Zoom on Thursdays. You can now register (click here) to the first seminar of the Fall 2021 quarter, happening next Thursday, September 23 at 12-1 PM US CT. Professor Ingrid Bachmann (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) will give a presentation entitled “Framed by gender: Examining news and media through a feminist lens.”

Abstract: The relationship between gender and news is a complex phenomenon. Even with important inroads toward equality worldwide, the inequities of power and privilege based on gender have proven to be pervasive, significant, and substantial. This presentation addresses some lessons learned and the many challenges remaining when trying to understand the way gender dynamics shape news practices, news content and news use, the contributions of feminist theories to such examinations, and why gender always matters.

Ingrid Bachmann is an associate professor in the School of Communications at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where she chaired the Journalism Department between 2016 and 2020. A former reporter, her research addresses the intersections between news narratives, gender, and political communication.

This event is co-sponsored by the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, the Center for Global Culture and Communication, the Department of Communication Studies, the Department of Radio/Television/Film, the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, and the Latina and Latino Studies Program.