페미니즘이 언론학에 미친 영향

• 영문명: The Impact of Feminism on Media Studies
• 발행기관: 이화여자대학교 한국여성연구원
• 저자명: 최선열(CHOI Sun-Yol)
• 간행물 정보: 『여성학논집』제17집, 115~165쪽, 전체 51쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 여성학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2000.12.01

영문 초록

For the past twenty years since the introduction of women's studies as a legitimate field of study in Korea, feminist research has made headway in various fields including communication studies. However, there is some debate as to whether it has realized its full potential to transform the conceptual and methodological frameworks of other fields. The feminist assertion that gender is socially constructed through communication closely links these two disciplines. It is apparent that feminism has been successful in making its presence in communication research and vice versa. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the influence of feminism on communication research in Korea. We paid special attention to the somewhat bewildering proliferation of communication programs at colleges and universities across the nation in the 1990's. This can be characterized by a shift in social paradigms for democracy and egalitarianism. We assumed that the expansion of the field allowed the flux of young liberal scholars who, in turn, contributed to the formation of a more progressive and egalitarian academic environment which was more favorable to fundamentally progressive social thoughts like feminism. With this loose hypothesis in mind, we monitored the changes in the academic environment of communication research on the on hand, and the trends in feminist media research on the other. We also conducted an empirical study of women communication scholars whose roles in establishing feminist scholarship in communication research should not be overlooked. To enhance our understanding of the process of importing feminist theory and methodology from the West, we initially conducted an extensive review of literature in feminist media studies in the West, mainly in the United States and Britain, and also in Korea. We found the similar patterns or stages of development-from the stage of "add-women-and-stir", to the stages of feminist empiricism, and finally to the feminist standpoint in western and Korean literature. A quantitative analysis of the academic environment of communication studies revealed two distinct waves of growth. The first wave came in the 1980's and the second one, which was much more larger and powerful, came late in the 1990's. It is remarkable that twelve new departments of communication were established in 1998 alone. The professional recognition of female communication scholars came quite late. Before 1990, there were only six full-time female professors throughout the nation. No one was added to the very short roster until 1993. However, during the second wave of growth (from 1995 through 2000), twenty-seven female scholars found full-time university teaching jobs. Increasing demands for full-time faculty members at newly opened departments facilitated a bigger and more flexible job market where many women fared well. Before the 1990, women comprised of only 9.4% of the total membership of the Korean Society for Journalism & Communication Studies(KSJCS), the largest and most prestigious academic society in communication research. This percentage increased in 1997, and has consistently stayed around 14% until 2000. It was not until 1998 when the KSJCS included the first gender session in their biannual conventions. Communication research in Korea has been slow in responding to the emergence of the feminist perspective. It was not until 1993 when a paper written from a feminist perspective was first published in the official journal of KSJCS. Books or articles seriously discussing feminist media theories became visible since 1994. The analysis of curricula offered by the undergraduate communication programs clearly showed the marginalization of feminist media theories and research. Only five universities were found to have offered feminist media theories and research as an independent course, At most other universities, feminist perspectives are covered as minor topics in such courses as popular culture,

목차

Ⅰ. 서론

Ⅱ. 이론적 쟁점 : 서구 언론학에 미친 페미니즘의 영향

Ⅲ. 페미니즘의 수용이 한국 언론학에 미친 영향 분석

Ⅳ. 여성 언론학자들의 페미니즘 수용과 활동

Ⅴ. 연구 결과의 요약 및 결론

참고문헌

부록

Abstract