Some more extreme media studies perspectivesare forming as inevitable by-products of our postmodern zeitgeist, forinstance conceptualisations of identity (including celebrity/audience identity) as altogether socially constructed.Such perspectives posit there is no continuous, integrated self. Rather,facets of the social, including language and action, contribute to theconstruction of the self in a network of relationality (Gudorf, 2004:3). If an identity is but a construct, it follows that this identityis subject to reconstruction. And this can occur in the handsof the individual in question. John B. Thompson targets such postmodernperspectives towards the media when he states,
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Self is a symbolicproject that the individual actively constructs....out of the symbolicmaterials [such as those offered by the media] which are available tohim or her, materials the individual weaves into a coherent accountof who he or she is, a narrative of self-identity. (Thompson,1995: 210)
Findings In this serial cross-sectional study across an 8-year study period during which more than 5000 TGD young people were referred to 2 pediatric gender clinics in the UK and Australia, a significant association was found between weekly referral rates and the number of TGD-related items appearing within the local media 1 to 2 weeks beforehand, for the UK only in week 1 and for Australia only in week 2.
Meaning An increase in media coverage of TGD-related topics over recent years was associated with an increase in the number of TGD young people presenting to 2 gender clinics on opposite sides of the world.
Conclusions and Relevance This study found evidence of an association between increasing media coverage of TGD-related topics and increasing numbers of young people presenting to gender clinics. It is possible that media coverage acts as a precipitant for young people to seek treatment at specialist gender services, which is consistent with clinical experiences in which TGD young people commonly identify the media as a helpful source of information and a trigger to seek assistance.
This paper asserts that since the Nigerian media is patriarchal, they inexorably present images that give the impression that men have a superior knowledge of God than women. This idea is incidentally reechoing in contemporary Nigerian Christian practices, especially in the age of the new media. The paper examines gender, religion, and media from historical perspectives; analyses the theoretical framework at the root of the construction of the female gender and their representation in religion; and lastly, presents selected examples from day-to-day empirical evidence from Christian organizations in the Nigerian media space with the aim of deconstructing the public image of Christian women in the Nigerian public square. It thus aims to reconstruct the public image of women in religion via the media, showing the importance of equal gender representation. The narrative concerning reconstruction is deeply contextual, analytical, rigorous, and interdisciplinary. 2ff7e9595c
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