A landmark publication in the social sciences, Linda Lindsey's Gender is the most
comprehensive textbook to explore gender sociologically, as a critical and fundamental …

Virtual influencers, or computer-generated virtual characters, have attracted numerous
followers on social media like Instagram with their unconstrained physical bodies and …

To understand the growing trend of gender-themed empowerment advertising, such as
“femvertising” and “dadvertising,” this content analysis evaluates the scope and …

This study aimed to examine features of objectified images in popular fitspiration accounts
on social media, identify the most prevalent user discussion topics about these images, and …

Although media exposure has been related to cognitive preoccupation with appearance,
research rarely investigated adolescents' behavioral self-sexualization. To address this gap …

Research shows that families engage in gender and race specific parenting, guided by
societal expectations around gender roles and the persistent racialized hierarchy. What is …

The Journal and Mass Communication Quarterly (JMCQ) has documented the struggle
members of marginalized groups face in their quest to be treated equally in media content …

Objectives How do surges in female representation in public life affect media coverage?
Can the media underrepresent the reality of women's progress? If so, is the source of …

Misinformation becomes rampant in the digital age and social media provide people with the
opportunities for engaging more actively in society. The objectives of the study are:(i) to …

We conducted a longitudinal visual content analysis of 462 popular music videos from 1995
to 2016 analyzing the depictions of sexuality, sexual objectification, and ambiguous sexual …