Abstract

GIRARDELLO, Gilka Elvira Ponzi. Reading between the lines and footnotes: aspects of gender in research with children about media. Perspectiva [online]. 2015, vol.33, n.3, pp.961-981. ISSN 2175-795X.  https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-795X.2015v33n3p961.

This article examines Brazilian studies about media in the life of children, and emphasizes aspects of gender that were secondary in most of the research. Registers were found from field research - mainly statements from children - conducted between 2000 and 2010 in the context of a study group based at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. The works examined were based on cultural studies, Latin American reception studies and on contemporary childhood studies. Discussions about gender relations in research with children about media are part of this theoretical methodological framework, whose main aspects are synthesized in the work, mainly using concepts from Joseph Tobin and David Buckingham. The statements of the children registered and analyzed in the studies and selected in this work, led to the conclusions that while children often express and reproduce prejudice, they are also capable of identifying in the media culture problematic elements from the perspective of gender that provoke discomfort, inequality and exclusion; that the research situations in which the children discuss their experience with the media can be important spaces for negotiation and resistance; that criticism of dualistic and stereotyped representations of gender in the media continues to be very important in the 21st century. This reaffirms the relevance of projects aimed at an inclusive, non-sexist and anti-homophobic education.

Keywords : Gender; Media; Children.

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