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Gender, empowerment, and communication: looking backwards and forwards *
Author(s) -
Sreberny Annabelle
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
international social science journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.237
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1468-2451
pISSN - 0020-8701
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2451.2005.00551.x
Subject(s) - democratization , summit , politics , empowerment , globalization , sociology , democracy , centrality , civil society , political science , network society , information and communications technology , gender analysis , gender studies , social science , mathematics , combinatorics , physical geography , law , geography
This paper explores the interrelations of globalisation, communication, and democratisation, particularly in relation to gender equality and empowerment. It provides a historical analysis of the development of global women's networks, especially in the substantive areas of media and communications technologies, and the politics of their process and their achievements. It examines the convergences in media and communications technologies, and hence the continuities and changes in analytic foci, between the 1995 Beijing Summit on Women and the 2005 World Summit on the Information Society. Also explored are the gender politics and the range of gender‐related issues that emerged through the WSIS process, especially the growing centrality of ICTS for development but also the limits of a solely technologistic approach. The paper argues that a gender lens can provide a holistic analysis of global issues, which include the democratisation of communication, the communication of democracy, and the emancipation of the world's women.