Courses, presentations and round tables

Various conferences, reports, and discussion groups have been organised or participated in such as: • A Conference titled ‘Mass media in the (re)distribution of the power’. The main issue was whether female politicians in new democracies are able to use the possibilities offered by the media. A presentation was held titled ‘Does gender matter in media’. • International overview about women and the media in the world • Meeting with C. Judit who participated in the Cyprus conference titled ‘Let`s break the glass ceiling’ of which one aspect was specifically women in the media • Report about a conference in the countryside (Szeged) about the analysis of the links between the everyday power and the media, and about the ideological embeddedness of the science of letters. It monitored the social practice of portraying women in a stereotyped manner. • Training about assertive communication - how to use assertive methods in media work and in the everyday life? • How can a woman work in the printed media? A member wrote her thesis on the Szeged University about female journalism, based on a survey among 119 media workers and her own experience • Women in the news – a roundtable with journalists