Feminist Media Production in Europe | Gunda-Werner-Institut

The thematic stream „Feminist Media Production in Europe" is part of „Civilmedia 11: Community Media for Social Change: Low Threshold - High Impact" and will be organised by Rosa Reitsamer and Elke Zobl (on April 14th 2011).

Women have always played an important role in movements for social justice. Using media to transport their messages, to disrupt social orders and to spin novel social processes, feminists have long recognised the importance of self-managed media. In the past two decades an increasing number of women have taken the tools of media production into their hands; a vital social phenomenon that has gone largely undetected by members of the public, academia, and even sometimes the feminist movement. As a consequence of this invisibility, very little documentation and research has been done so far on women's own media cultures, especially so in Europe and with a focus on current developments in the digital realm. To counter this gap and to explore the processes, effects, potentials, and limitations of women's and feminist media production in Europe, the thematic streams focuses on contemporary feminist grassroots media in general and on blogs, E-zines, culture jamming, graffiti, radio, TV and digital archives in particular.