Teaching Resources

The Global Media Monitoring Project, GMMP offers a pedagogic tool for discussing gender representation but also other issues related to news agendas. It can be used to analyze a specific news week in one medium or to compare different media – say, main TV news with Twitter or a national daily with a local one. Previous reports offer possibilities for longitudinal and global comparisons. The coding kit and instructions are open access and offer easier and more extensive options for quantitative and qualitative content analysis.

The GMMP team has collected a list of free resources for teaching that they and their partners offer, available here. See also below for other teaching resources.

In short, for teaching purposes, you can make the GMMP your own by modifying it to suit your topic. The methods are straightforward, and can be eye-opening.

For broader, conceptual ideas, please see this text: Padovani, C. & Ross, K. (2020). ‘Ideas for gender-transformative futures of education in the digital age’. In Humanist Futures: Perspectives from UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN Networks on the futures of education. Paris, UNESCO, pp. 153-160.

Lessons from GMMP: Two Lesson Plans

Studying Gender, Politics, and Journalism: Case PM Marin

#MeToo: Origins Globally and in Finland

Report on GMMP Themes and Related Video Resources

Advancing Gender Equality in Media Industries AGEMI Learning Units

Lessons from GMMP: Two Lesson Plans

This guide includes are two practical ideas of how to utilize the GMMP in the classroom:

● A powerful illustration. Discuss the GMMP findings on gender inequalities with a focus of your choice.
● From research to praxis. Code (a number) of stories: what does the method reveal and what does it not reveal? Envision how to turn the data you gathered into practical policies, activism, or advocacy efforts.

GMMP: Lesson plans

Studying Gender, Politics, and Journalism: Case PM Marin

This resource offers an opportunity to engage the students with a full-fledged quantitative and qualitative content analysis, with original material.
The resource can be used as a course-long illustration and discussion prompt for journalism, political science, or gender studies course, or as one example in a methods-oriented course.

Researching gender and politics A hands-on analytical research project simulation

Coded material for analysis (Excel)

#MeToo: Origins Globally and in Finland

#MeToo Globally and in Finland

#MeToo Globally and in Finland. Podcast-video by Märta Nummenmaa on the origins of the #MeToo movement.

The podcast by Märta Nummenmaa (work for the course Media, Activism and Social Change, 2020). An excellent background resource for discussion.

#MeToo: Origins Globally and in Finland_Selected sources

Report on GMMP Themes and Related Video Resources

Mark Morgan: No harassing, Me too movement, cc 2.0

The report by Anna Björkqvist for the course Media, Activism and Social Change (2020) combines easily accessible videos on the social media platform Youtube with academic studies and connects GMMP and gendered issues related to the media representation in a diverse way.

The Untold Story: Thematic and video resources expanding on GMMP

Advancing Gender Equality in Media Industries AGEMI Learning Units

AGEMI introduction

AGEMI Online Knowledge Platform

Self-directed learning units on different aspects of the gender-media relationship by AGEMI Knowledge Platform. (You need to establish an account to access the units.)

Unit 1 – Introduction Unit 2 - Issues in gender, representation and news Unit 3 - Gender and the strategic use of language Unit 4 - Gendered journalism cultures Unit 5 - Women and leadership in media industries Unit 6 - Violence against women journalists Unit 7 - Gender+: intersectionality and the media Unit 8 - Gendered dimensions of technological innovation in journalism Unit 9 - In search of gender-sensitive media policies