Learning and teaching gender in the digital age: insights and reflections on the AGEMI project

The achievement of gender equality across the media industry, both in terms of representation but also in employment, has been a goal amongst activists, women’s organisations and many stakeholders across the sector, for several decades and has been seen as fundamental in achieving gender justice more generally, such is the pivotal role played by the media in contemporary societies. This article considers the ways in which issues around gender inequality and actions designed to challenge them, can be usefully incorporated into media and journalism programmes, particularly by taking advantage of a range of resources which are available online. It takes a case study approach by focusing on one particular set of resources which have been produced by members of an action project team, Advancing Gender Equality in Media Industries (AGEMI). While describing how the diverse components of the AGEMI online platform have been operationalized, we also highlight what we have learned in terms of their potential to create and develop gender-sensitive curricula and modules; and we discuss the opportunities which a shift to more online teaching, prompted by the global pandemic, offers to rethink the role of educators and students in the learning together process of knowledge transfer and production.