Media influence our understanding of, and attitudes toward, others.
This research area examines how different groups around the world, and particularly marginalized groups, are presented through the media and how this representation shapes identities, attitudes, and social and political power relations. It explores how domestic and international processes of media production, distribution, exhibition and reception influence these trends and how they intersect with the cultural production of identity.
recent research by our faculty has addressed:
- How processes of globalization intersect with gender, race, class, ethnicity and sexuality
- Representations of gender, race, and sexuality in video games
- Representations of gender and sexuality in the American and global mass media
- Representations of gender and sexuality by global media industries
- The capacity of music to decolonize identity among oppressed people
