Lecturers to take part in Global Media Monitoring Project
GMMP coordinators from the region in a workshop on research methodology for the Global Media Monitoring Project.
In early November, the fourth Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) will take place in over 110 countries around the world. Hilary Nicholson of Women’s Media Watch-Jamaica, and an adjunct lecturer, is spearheading Jamaica’s participation in the survey. Additionally, Nicholson and lecturer Corinne Barnes are coordinating the participation of nine other Caribbean territories in this global research project.
This unique project studies the representation of women and men in the news. It began fifteen years ago, when 76 countries around the world monitored their news media on 18 January 1995. Five years later, on 1 February 2000, a second global study took place, and on 16 February 2005 the study unrolled a third time.
Media monitors worldwide are participating this month in this massive, global effort to collect data on selected indicators of gender in their local news media. The results have been used in countless ways - to illustrate global patterns in news content, to highlight the persistent lack of women in national news media, and to start dialogue between media advocates and media practitioners.
The results will be presented to the 2010 Millennium Development Goals Review Summit. The GMMP brings together advocates, activists and researchers in an extraordinary global network, dedicated to documenting and changing patterns of portrayal in the news.
-contributed by Hilary Nicholson
CARIMAC receives research funding from local agencies
