Why is it, more than 40 years after Title IX – and with some women gaining high profiles as sport reporters and commentators – that coverage and sports departments are still dominated by men, and female athletes are still marginalized and stereotyped?
Marie Hardin, Ph. D., a former journalist and a leading scholar on the nexus of gender, sport and media, examines this phenomenon at Loyola Marymount University’s Forum on Media Ethics and Social Responsibility. This year’s topic: “The (Non)Coverage of Female Athletes and the Media-Sport Complex: Does the Gender of Who Decides Matter?”
Hardin’s talk focuses on the culture of sports journalism, its executives and the value set of the sports media community. This is the 32nd year of the forum. The event is free and open to the public.
Hardin is a professor of journalism at Pennsylvania State University, associate dean of the College of Communications and research director of the Curley Center for Sports Journalism. She is also associate editor for the research quarterly Communication and Sport and co-editor of the forthcoming Handbook on Sport and New Media.
WHAT: The (Non)Coverage of Female Athletes and the Media-Sport Complex: Does the Gender of Who Decides Matter?
WHEN: Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, 3 p.m.
WHERE: Ahmanson Auditorium, University Hall, LMU Campus, Los Angeles 90045
This forum is co-presented by the Women’s Studies Department and Journalism program of the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts and the LMU Athletics Department.
Read more about Marie Hardin at http://comm.psu.edu/people/individual/marie-hardin.