1.1
Title: Media Portrayal of Girls and Women
Author: Media Awareness Network, Canada
Description: A series of pages providing fundamental insights on such topics as beauty, body image, sex, relationships, girls, working women and stereotypes in the media. When you click this link, a page with a brief introduction should appear. In the middle of the page are the links for "Girls and Women." You have to  access these links individually to view the whole "article."
Topic Area: Media/General

1.2
Title: Boxing Helena and Corseting Eunice: Sexual Rhetoric in Cosmopolitan and Playboy Magazines
Author: Nicole R. Krassas
Description: Article from Sex Roles: A Journal of Research on visual rhetoric and gender (nonverbal communication).
Topic Area: Media/Print

1.3
Title: Media Portrayal of Boys and Men
Author: Media Awareness Network, Canada
Description: A series of pages providing fundamental insights on such topics as beauty, body image, sex, relationships, girls, working women and stereotypes in the media. When you click this link, a page with a brief introduction should appear. In the middle of the page are the links for "Boys and Men." You have to  access these links individually to view the whole "article."
Topic Area: Media/General

1.4
Title: The impact of sex and gender role self-perception on affective reactions to different types of film. Author: Mary B. Oliver
Description: Viewer response and gender. An interesting discussion of emotionality and response to film with regard to gender. From Sex Roles: A Journal of Research.
Topic Area: Media/Film
 

1.5
Title: Watch Out and Listen Up!  (Sections: Summary; Television's Truth and Lies; and Through Whose Eyes?)
Author: National Organization for Women
Description: Interesting overview of some gender perspectives on the season 2002
Topic Area: Media/Ads-Print/TV

1.6
Title: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Selling of "Charlie's Angels" and "Alias"
Author: David Roger Coon
Source:  Journal of Popular Film and Television, found in WilsonSelectPlus (UMUC Library Databases)
Topic Area: Media/Television/Nonverbal communication & images

1.7
Title: Widening the Gender Gap: Teenage magazines for girls and boys
Author: Tineke M. Willemsen Issue: from Sex Roles: A Research Journal, May, 1998, Connecticut College
Description: Fascinating comparison of a boy's and girl's magazine: content, language, writing style, etc.
Topic Area: Media/Print

1.8
Title: Does Lara Croft Wear Fake Polygons?
Author: Anne-Marie Schleiner
Source:  Leonardo, found in WilsonSelectPlus (UMUC Library Databases)
Topic Area: Media/Video-Games-Online culture

1.9
Title: From Tarzan to the Terminator: Boys, Men and Body Image
Author: Dr. Peter West, University of Western Sydney
Description: Interesting discussion of body image (nonverbal communication) and gender in relation to male hero figures presented by media
Topic Area: Media/Film-Cultural Icons

1.10
Title: The Glory of Cary Grant and Other Girlish Delights
Author: Elizabeth Abele
Description: Focus on gender roles in selected Hollywood classics
Topic Area: Media/Film-Stars-Cultural Icons

1.11 Communicating with the Sexes
Author: Sanjay Putrevu
Source:  Journal of Advertising, found in WilsonSelectPlus (UMUC Library Databases)
Description: This is a very technical article, but interesting for those who found our discussion of perception of interpretation of visual information interesting and who are interested in theories supporting that biological differences may influence perception
Topic Area: Media/Advertising/Perception & Interpretation of Visual Info

gender and education

2.1
Title: Inquiry into the Education of Boys
Author: Dr. Peter West, University of Western Sydney
Description: One of the few, detailed articles on the education of boys
Topic Area:  Gender & Education-Institutions

2.2
Title: Gender in Bias in Science and Science Education 
Author: Prof. Dr. Hannelore Schwedes (University of Bremen)
Description: Discussion of gender bias in German education system. Note: Interesting article, especially for the purposes of comparing U.S. experience and analysis to German. Data mostly from 80's and early 90's.
Topic Area: Gender & Education-Institutions
 

2.4
Title: Warming a chilly classroom
Author: Taylor, Jenifer A.
Source: ASEE Prism v. 6 (Feb. 1997) p. 28-33, found in WilsonSelectPlus (UMUC Library Databases)
Description: This article focuses on classroom atmosphere, manner of communication and differences in gender preferences with regard to these factors that may help discourage women from such fields as engineering
Topic Area: Gender & Education

2.5
Title: Pedagogic Discourses: Learning and Gender Identification
 

2.8
Title: Teacher Education Textbooks: The Unfinished Gender Revolution
Author: Zittleman, Karen
Source: Educational Leadership v. 60 no4 (Dec. 2002/Jan. 2003) p. 59-63, found in WilsonSelectPlus (UMUC Library Databases)
Description: Short article surveying amount and quality of information on gender in contemporary teacher education textbooks.
Topic Area: Gender & Education

2.9
Title: The difference it has made: the impact of the women's movement on education
Author: Chapman, Anne
Source: Independent School v. 60 no1 (Fall 2000) p. 20-30, found in WilsonSelectPlus (UMUC Library Databases)
Description: A summary of some of the changes in education deemed to have resulted from the Women's Movement. (Also interesting in conjunction with Article 2.10)
Topic Area: Gender & Education
 

3.1
Title: Gender and Computer Games: Exploring Females' Dislikes
Author: Tilo Hartmann
Source: Journal of Computer Mediated Communication (2006)
Description: This article discusses a study involving the dislikes of German females with regard to video games.

3.2
Title: Fair Play?: Violence, Gender and Race in Video Games
Author: Children Now
Description: This is a long report, but the gender segment is the only one that need be covered in the reflective essay (pp. 10-20)

3.3
Title: Gender and the Use of Exclamation Points in CMC
Author: Waseleski, Carol
Source: Journal of Computer Mediated Communication (2006)
Description: This may seem like a crazy topic, but it's a very good example of how we can skew our perceptions of gendered behavior by not looking deep enough. The same kinds of questions might be asked about the traditional popularity of daytime soaps among women (relating to role in the home rather than appeal of subject matter) or use of technology by women, or the appeal of video games.
Topic Area: Gender & CMC

3.4
Title: Portrayals of Information and Communication Technology on World Wide Web Sites for Girls.
Author: Raphael et al.
Source: Journal of Computer Mediated Communication (2006)
Description: A discussion of the common characteristics of sites that pro-actively reach out to or are explicitly designed for girls.
Topic Area: Gender & CMC

3.5
Title: The Influence of Avatar on Online Perception of Antrhopomorphism, Androgyny, Credibility, Homophily, and Attraction.
Author: Nowak and Rauh
Source: Journal of Computer Mediated Communication (2005)
Description: Although this article is only partially focused on gender, the issues of similarity between user and avatar and the relation of that predictability is interesting in relation to a potentially positive aspect of generalization regarding male and female behavior (i.e., that generalizations help us anticipate behavior and therefore reassure). Interesting article, but you need to be ready to find the connections in this one:-)
Topic Area: Gender & CMC

3.6
Title: Exploring Web Usage and Selection Criteria Among Male and Female Students
Author: Mitra et al.
Source: Journal of Computer Mediated Communication (2005)
Description: This article addresses three questions relating to the "evaluative criteria" used by female and male students in evaluating websites.
Topic Area: Gender & CMC

3.7
Title: Experienced Presence with Computer-Mediated Communications: Initial Explorations on the Effects of Gender with Respect to Empathy and Immersion
Author:  Nicovich et al.
Source: Journal of Computer Mediated Communication (2005)
Description: This articles discusses how gender affects the experience of presence in online environments.
Topic Area: Gender and CMC

Finding Additional Articles in the UMUC Databases:

In the list of readings above, you'll find selected pre-screened articles from our UMUC database collections. If you do not find an article you like in the list of suggested readings, you may select an alternative reading form our databases and, pending my final approval, use this for the first assignment of the project. For those of you who'd like to research our databases, I've provided a sample search below. You can access these library databases directly from the WebTycho classroom.

To get to the Contemporary Women's Issues database, where I found the two sample articles listed below, do the following.
 

1. Choose Library Databases from the Library Menu at the top of the WT screen.
2. When the UMUC Database/E-Journal screen appears, you will see an alphabet list under the heading "Resources by Title."
3. Choose "C"
4. When the list of databases beginning with "C" comes up, choose "Contemporary Women's Issues."
5. At this point, you will be asked to log-in. If you have been currently taking DE courses with UMUC, you should be able to log-in, using your last name and SSN. (If your log-in fails, you will get an "Invalid Authorization" screen, on which you will find links to UMUC-Stateside, UMUC-Asia, or UMUC-Europe library registration forms. Just go to the appropriate form (depending on where you're registered), fill it out, and SUBMIT. You should be registered within 2 working days.)
6. After log-in, you will get a Search Screen. When this comes up, enter the keyword search criteria "gender communication."
7. You should get a "Search Results" screen with over 400 hits!

You may search this or other UMUC databases for relevant articles (WilsonSelectPlus is another good database for finding full-text articles!). However, you must have these articles approved before using them. My reasoning is this: The articles used in the project must not only be interesting or academically useful, they must also fit into our special topics areas of Gender and Media, Gender and Education, Gender and Computer-Mediated Education, Gender and Advertising or Gender Stereotypes. Since the group projects work out much better if there is a significant connection between the articles, I'll want to make sure that this connection exists. Don't let this discourage you from looking. I look very hard for possible connections.

Some tips on searching the databases...
 

Here are two of the articles I found when I searched the Contemporary Women's Issues site using the search criteria "gender communication", then refined (there's a "Refine" button on the left-hand menu, where you can add terms and thus narrow down your search) by adding the terms "university education" to the original search criteria:
 

Title: Out-of-class communication between female and male students and faculty: the relationship to student perceptions of instructor immediacy.
Database: Contemporary Women's Issues
Author(s): Jaasma, Marjorie A; Koper, Randall J.
From: Women's Studies in Communication v25, n1, 2002, p.119(19) Table
Publisher: United States 2002
Description: Discusses the diversity of reaction to out-of-class communication between students and faculty, based on gender. General communication preferences are reviewed and then connected to classroom/learning behavior and the perception of "instructor immediacy."

When I used the terms "gender communication" and added "advertising" I found the following:
 

Title: Young women's perceptions of print cigarette advertising
From: Women's Studies in Communication, v24, n2, 2001
Description: Focuses on basis for attraction to ads

Title: Gender Issues in Advertising Language
Author: Artz, Nancy and others...
From: Women &  Language
Publisher: United States 1999
Description: Examines sexism and gender bias in advertising...
 

When I used the terms "gender communication" and "film" I found the following:
 

Title: Framing the feminine: diasporic readings of gender in popular Indian cinema.
Database: Contemporary Women's Issues
Author(s): Ram, Anjali
From: Women's Studies in Communication v25, n1, 2002, p.25(28)
Description: Focuses on reception study in terms of media. Author is not studying the message sent by Indian movies as much as the message received. Since many early media studies have focused on influence of media in terms of message sent, this is a relatively new take on media "effects."

Feel free to look in these databases, but make sure that you refine your search criteria further, if you find yourself getting too many hits. Also notice how the hit priorities are managed. By relevance? By date? By both? Probably your best hits will be at the beginning, but not always, depending on how effective your criteria were! Be patient.

Last updated: 20 August 2008