Open AccessGendering the European Digital Agenda: The Challenge of Gender Mainstreaming Twenty Years after the Beijing World Conference on Women
Author(s) -
Claudia Padovani
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of information policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.377
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2381-5892
pISSN - 2158-3897
DOI - 10.5325/jinfopoli.6.2016.0403
Subject(s) - beijing , gender mainstreaming , mainstreaming , fourth world , political science , gender equality , scholarship , mainstream , gender studies , power (physics) , sociology , media studies , public relations , china , law , special education , physics , quantum mechanics
The goals set out in the 1995 Platform for Action of the Beijing World Conference\udon Women—to achieve gender equality in and through the media—interrogate\udtoday’s digital policies: To what extent have internationally agreed-upon norms of\udgender equality and gender mainstreaming been recognized and implemented?\udTo what extent has the knowledge produced by feminist scholarship informed\udmedia policy developments? What kind of new knowledge, and analytical frameworks,\udmay contribute to unmask gender-unequal power relations in contemporary\udmedia environments? The article addresses these questions with a focus on\udEuropean discourses and institutional practices for the Digital Agenda