Gender and Sexuality in the European Media

Cosimo Marco Scarcelli, PhD, is Assistant Professor at FISPPA, University of Padua. His research interests deal with digital media with a focus on young people, intimacy, gender, sexuality, digital literacy and media education. He is chair of the Gender and Communication section of ECREA. Despina Chronaki (Dr) is Adjunct Lecturer at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Hellenic Open University (MA in Journalism Studies). Her research focuses on audiences of popular culture, children’s experiences with media, ethics and porn studies. Sara De Vuyst is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University. Her research interests are feminist media studies, issues of gender, sexuality and ageing, and gender inequality in journalism. She is vice-chair of the ECREA Gender and Communication section and currently working on the LiLI project that has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 851666). Sergio Villanueva Baselga is Assistant Professor at the University of Barcelona. His research focuses on the relationship between media and health identities, stigma and resilience, considering that media, film and culture are part of the social determinants of health. He is vice-chair of the Film Studies section of ECREA.

Editors’ Introduction ; Part I: Young people, sexuality and gender performance: Texts and audiences ; 1. Feminist YouTubers in Spain: A public space for building resistance ; 2. Un/fit for young viewers: LGBT+ representation in Flemish and Irish children’s television ; 3. Breaking the silence. Young people, sex information and the internet in Italy and Portugal ; 4. COVID-19 pandemic and discourses of anxiety about childhood sexuality in digital spaces ; Part II: Adults, sexuality, gender and the media in research perspective ; 5. HIV-related stigma in the European cinema: Conflictive representations of a cultural trauma ; 6. Buiuld it and they will come: Sex toys, heteronormativity and age ; 7. Fuelling hate: Hate speech towards women in online news websites in Albania ; 8. "Tell me how old I am": Cinema, pedagogy, adults and underage trans folks ; Part III: Elderly have a voice (?): Sexuality, gender and the media across texts and audiences ; 9. Invisible aged femininities in popular culture: Representational strategies deconstructed ; 10. "Old dirty pops and young hot chicks": Age differences in pornographic fantasies ; 11. Hustling and ageism in the films Eastern Boys and Brüder der Nacht ; 12. Ageing women on screen: Disgust, disdain and the Time’s Up pushback ; 13. No Country for Old Men?: Representations of ageing body in contemporary pornography