Mediating feminist gaze through prisms of social change

With Professor Karin Gwinn Wilkins, University of Miami

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Abstract:

Feminist approaches offer a valuable critical lens to help witness our world and articulate our approaches to social change. I offer critique of discourse that celebrates digital technologies as tools to promote participatory governance, entrepreneurship, and collective activism, through a feminist gaze that privileges the political and economic contexts that condition access to voice, capacity to listen, and potential for dialogue. This analysis builds on an understanding of mediated communication as a prism rather than as a projected mirror, structuring our potential as well as our challenges in creating constructive social change.

Bio:

Karin Wilkins is Dean of the School of Communication at the University of Miami. Before coming to UM in September, 2019 she was Associate Dean for Faculty Advancement and Strategic Initiatives with the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin, where she also held the John T. Jones Jr. Centennial Professorship in Communication and the John P. McGovern Regents Professorship in Health and Medical Science Communication. She was awarded the Cale McDowell Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Studies, for creating a certificate in global studies, programs in Middle East studies, and a degree in Communication and Leadership.

Wilkins is also the Editor-in-Chief of Communication Theory. She has won numerous awards for her research, service and teaching, and chaired the Intercultural/Development Division of the International Communication Association. Her work addresses scholarship in the fields of development communication, global communication, and political engagement. She holds a Ph.D. and a Master in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A., in Interdisciplinary Studies from Bucknell University. More information on Professor Wilkins.