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Article: Jacobson, Maria. Young People and Gendered Media Messages.(Book Review)
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- Communication Research Trends
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- December 1, 2005
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Jacobson, Maria. Young People and Gendered Media Messages. Goteborg: NORDICOM, 2005. Pp. 66. ISBN 91-89471-29-6 (pb.) 12 [euro].
Attempting to give a picture of "what is going on in the field of gender and media in a broad sense" (p. 5) around the world, as this research report does, is an ambitious undertaking. Author Maria Jacobson, a freelance journalist and chairperson of a nonprofit organization that monitors the media, covers a good deal of ground in a few pages. Yet this report is limited by its brevity and lack of a unifying central argument, theoretical framework, or organizing principle.
The report contains six main chapters. The first chapter, ...