{"id":44313,"date":"2025-12-08T13:47:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T12:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/?post_type=event&#038;p=44313"},"modified":"2026-02-02T12:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:36:25","slug":"gender-and-representation-deconstructing-stereotypes-and-disinformation-in-the-media","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/event\/gender-and-representation-deconstructing-stereotypes-and-disinformation-in-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender and Representation: deconstructing stereotypes and disinformation in the media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gender stereotypes and biased representations remain deeply embedded across today\u2019s media landscape, influencing public perceptions, shaping social norms, and fueling gender-based disinformation. This session will explore how media literacy can help professionals critically examine these dynamics and empower audiences to recognise, question, and counter harmful narratives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Featuring practitioner case studies, practical guidelines, and concrete examples from the field, the webinar highlighted effective strategies for identifying gendered misinformation, analysing media portrayals, and promoting more equitable communication practices. Participants gained actionable tools, insights, and tips to strengthen their own educational or professional work\u2014whether in classrooms, community settings, media organisations, or public institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Target group:<\/strong> Media literacy educators, teachers, librarians, civil society actors, researchers, media professionals, communication experts, policy makers, and all stakeholders interested in gender equality, responsible media representation, and combating disinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle wp-block-ub-content-toggle-block\" id=\"ub-content-toggle-block-40f42661-e733-4732-a6bb-4d169d7fcf82\" data-mobilecollapse=\"false\" data-desktopcollapse=\"false\" data-preventcollapse=\"false\" data-showonlyone=\"false\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion\" style=\"border-color: #f1f1f1; \" id=\"ub-content-toggle-panel-block-\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion-title-wrap\" style=\"background-color: #f1f1f1;\" aria-controls=\"ub-content-toggle-panel-0-40f42661-e733-4732-a6bb-4d169d7fcf82\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion-title ub-content-toggle-title-40f42661-e733-4732-a6bb-4d169d7fcf82\" style=\"color: #000000; \"><strong>Dr. Sindy Sumter <\/strong>(Associate Professor) and <strong>Dr. Irene van Driel<\/strong> (Assistant Professor) work at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion-toggle-wrap right\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion-state-indicator wp-block-ub-chevron-down open\"><\/span><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion-content-wrap\" id=\"ub-content-toggle-panel-0-40f42661-e733-4732-a6bb-4d169d7fcf82\">\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2025\/12\/SeeMeBeMe_UvA_Gender-ML_TheNetherlands.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of SeeMeBeMe_UvA_Gender ML_TheNetherlands.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-4e9d3653-f107-40ca-b25e-3513da41dfa8\" href=\"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2025\/12\/SeeMeBeMe_UvA_Gender-ML_TheNetherlands.pdf\">SeeMeBeMe_UvA_Gender ML_TheNetherlands<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2025\/12\/SeeMeBeMe_UvA_Gender-ML_TheNetherlands.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-4e9d3653-f107-40ca-b25e-3513da41dfa8\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion\" style=\"border-color: #f1f1f1; 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\" id=\"ub-content-toggle-panel-block-\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion-title-wrap\" style=\"background-color: #f1f1f1;\" aria-controls=\"ub-content-toggle-panel-2-40f42661-e733-4732-a6bb-4d169d7fcf82\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion-title ub-content-toggle-title-40f42661-e733-4732-a6bb-4d169d7fcf82\" style=\"color: #000000; \"><strong>Monica Duran Ruiz<\/strong>, Responsible for International Relations, Media and IT Lawyer, Catalan Audiovisual Council, Spain.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion-toggle-wrap right\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion-state-indicator wp-block-ub-chevron-down open\"><\/span><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion-content-wrap\" id=\"ub-content-toggle-panel-2-40f42661-e733-4732-a6bb-4d169d7fcf82\">\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2025\/12\/MonicaRuiz_CatalanAudiovisualCouncil.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of MonicaRuiz_CatalanAudiovisualCouncil.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-4e5f7b15-58bc-4866-8d5a-6ace7171a668\" href=\"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2025\/12\/MonicaRuiz_CatalanAudiovisualCouncil.pdf\">MonicaRuiz_CatalanAudiovisualCouncil<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2025\/12\/MonicaRuiz_CatalanAudiovisualCouncil.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-4e5f7b15-58bc-4866-8d5a-6ace7171a668\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion\" style=\"border-color: #f1f1f1; 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\">External Links \ud83d\udd17<\/p>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion-toggle-wrap right\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><span class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion-state-indicator wp-block-ub-chevron-down open\"><\/span><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div role=\"region\" aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-ub-content-toggle-accordion-content-wrap\" id=\"ub-content-toggle-panel-4-40f42661-e733-4732-a6bb-4d169d7fcf82\">\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>SeeMeBeMe: <a href=\"https:\/\/seemebeme.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/seemebeme.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>FORMA.Azione: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azione.com\/it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.azione.com\/it<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GenderED Coalition:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.genderedcoalition.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> https:\/\/www.genderedcoalition.net\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GenderED Competence Framework: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genderedcoalition.net\/competence-framework\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.genderedcoalition.net\/competence-framework<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Catalan Audiovisual Council: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cac.cat\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cac.cat\/en<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CAC reports on the Internet: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cac.cat\/en\/cac-reports-internet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cac.cat\/en\/cac-reports-internet<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Educac: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.educac.cat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.educac.cat\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cac.cat\/sites\/default\/files\/fakenews.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cac.cat\/sites\/default\/files\/fakenews.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CAC Gender Equality: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cac.cat\/en\/gender-equality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cac.cat\/en\/gender-equality<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CAC Diversity: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cac.cat\/en\/diversity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cac.cat\/en\/diversity<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-gridlove-highlight-acc-background-color has-background\"><em><mark style=\"background-color:#b5e1ff\" class=\"has-inline-color has-gridlove-cat-129-color\"><em>Be sure to follow us for future events!<\/em><\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>If your institution is not yet a member, you can learn more about joining&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/become-a-member\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":44316,"template":"","categories":[5,276,272],"class_list":["post-44313","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-events","category-lifelong-learning","category-media-literacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/44313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/44313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45178,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/44313\/revisions\/45178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}