The Male Gaze: Through The Lens of The Wolf of Wall Street
Laura Mulvey introduced the concept of the male gaze in her seminal essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative…
The Male Gaze
One of the most important ideas in media theory and film is the “male gaze,” which Laura…
Manufacturing Consent
Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky’s book “Manufacturing Consent” makes the case that the media in capitalist democracies…
Medium Theory
A seemingly straightforward question is posed by media theory: What if the technology, or medium, is more…
Culture Industry- Coached or Real?
Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer developed the phrase “Culture Industry” in 1944 as part of their criticism…
Hello World
Hi there, my name is Jamal and I’m in my second year of studying digital media at…
Encoding and Decoding Animal Crossing: New Horizons
After its 2020 release, Animal Crossing: New Horizons became a cultural phenomenon rather than just an entertaining…
Introduce myself
Hi everyone! My name is Kevin, and I’m a student from Shenzhen, China — a city known…
Zootopia: The Diversity of Female Character Creation and fighting with the Male Gaze
In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female….
The Male Gaze In Women’s Football
In 1975, Laura Mulvey coined the term “Male Gaze,” created to theorize and understand the idea that…
Understanding the Male Gaze, the Female Gaze
The concept of the ‘male gaze’ has been central to feminist film theory for decades. Feminist scholars…
Algorithmic Biases: Why “Neutral” Code Still Picks Sides
Algorithmic biases are systematic mistakes in how automated systems treat people differently, usually based on race, gender,…
Why Your Feed Looks the Way It Does: Data Colonialism in Action
Every time we scroll through our phones, we are participating in what Couldry and Mejias call “data…
Understanding the Male Gaze in Everyday Media
The idea of the “male gaze” might sound like something complicated, but once you start noticing it,…
Being Looked At: The Male Gaze from Cinema to Social Media
1. What Is the Male Gaze? The idea of the Male Gaze was introduced by Laura Mulvey…
Wo(men): The Male Gaze.
To be seen as a Female is to be seen as a conceptualization. Used as a tool…
How the male gaze is not just about a female figure
The male gaze is a feminist theory which describes how the media often portrays women in more…
Understanding the Male Gaze
The term “male gaze” comes from film theorist Laura Mulvey (1975). She argued that many films were…
The gender power game in Pirates of the Caribbean
We miss Elizabeth Swan in Pirates of the Caribbean, the “white moonlight” that fell out of the…
Algorithmic bias:When”intelligence”also wears “colored glasses”
Have you ever wondered that when you submit your resume online but receive no response, it might…
What Are Algorithmic Biases: the When, How, and Why They Occur.
In today’s society algorithms are going through as they are more and more integrated throughout all the…
How the Male Gaze Shapes Men, Not Just Women
Laura Mulvey’s idea of the male gaze is often used to explain how films make women look…
Algorithmic Biases in AI Face Recognition
In this blog, I discuss the idea of algorithmic bias through the example of AI face recognition…
The Male Gaze in Sportswear
Theory The male gaze theory was originally formed by Laura Mulvey in 1975, and it describes how…
