Lana F Rakow
Biographic Data
| ID | 2284292 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lana F Rakow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lana F |
| FAMILY NAME | Rakow |
| SIGNATURE | RAKOW L F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Parkside |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Metropolis and the Hinterland: Community as the Blind Spot of James Carey’s Theory of Communication
Cultural studies scholar James Carey is known for an approach to communication that drew on Harold Innis for understanding relations between the metropolis and the hinterland and John Dewey for understanding community and culture. Despite the value of his approach, Carey’s theory has a blind spot at the intersection of community and politics. He collapsed notions of community and the public and bracketed the politics of meaning-making at the loca…
Women Making Meaning: New Feminist Directions in Communication
Worldviews and mediatization: In search of a metatheory
What worldview will enable communication theorists to understand the worldwide, accelerating phenomenon of media intertwining with all facets of people's lives? Shelton Gunaratne argues that Wester
What Is Theory? Puzzles and Maps as Metaphors in Communication Theory
Many handbooks, books, and articles in communication studies offer definitions of theory, as well as approaches to what are the features of theory or what makes a good theory and to what are the functions of theory or what makes a theory useful. In this essay, we configure a taxonomy of definitions of and approaches to theory through a cross-disciplinary perspective, by reflecting on the different views on theory in the discipline of communicatio…
Follow the Buzz: Questions about Mobile Communication Industries and Scholarly Discourse
Keywords: GenderTechnologyTheoryMethodology Additional informationNotes on contributorsLana F. RakowLana F. Rakow (PhD, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana) is a professor of communication and women studies at the University of North Dakota
Feminist Communication Theory: Selections in Context
Feminist Communication Theory: An Introduction Part 1: Difference Difference in Feminist Communication Theory Who is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism - Paula Gunn Allen Necessity of Differences: Constructing a Positive Category of Women - Marilyn Frye Reconciling Equality to Difference: Caring (F)or Justice for People with Disabilities - Anita Silvers Becoming Post Colonial: African Women Changing the Meaning of Citizenship - Patricia McF…
Teaching Against the Text
Feminists, Media, Freed Speech
The Public at the Table: From Public Access to Public Participation
Women Making Meaning: New Feminist Directions in Communication
Preface. Part 1: The Politics of Making Meaning 1. The Field Reconsidered Lana F. Rakow 2. Male is to Female as ____ is to ____: A Guided Tour of Five Feminist Frameworks for Communication Studies Kathryn Cirksena and Lisa Cuklanz 3. The Politics of Difference: Race, Class, and Women's Communication Marsha Houston 4. Accounting for Others: Feminism and Representation Keya Ganguly Part 2: Beyond the Field's Boundaries 5. Theorizing Through the Bod…
America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940. Claude S. Fischer
Imagining Women: Cultural Representations and Gender
Part I Themes and Issues: Readings from: Richard Allen, Catherine King, Dinah Birch, Joan Swann, and Frances Bonner Part II:Literary Representations - Self as Subject: Readings from: Elaine Showalter, Maria Lauret, Lizbeth Goodman, Alicia Ostriker, Carol Rumens, Nicole Ward Jouve and Wendy Webster Part III Visual Images - Making Things Mean: Readings from: Catherine King, Michelle Cliffe, Felicity Edholm Part IV Film and Television: Readings from…
The Curriculum Is the Future
Journal Article The Curriculum Is the Future Get access Lana F. Rakow Lana F. Rakow 1Lana F. Rakow is associate vice chancellor for undergraduate studies and associate professor of communication at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Prior to taking her current position, she was chair of the Communication Department at the same university. The author would like to acknowledge the faculty and staff of the UW-Parkside Communication Department who…
Remote mothering and the parallel shift: Women meet the cellular telephone
New technologies could have a positive impact on women's lives because of their potential to disrupt old social and political conventions. Using the recent development of the cellular telephone as an example, the authors find, however, that gender differences in the acquisition and use of this technology already are reproducing familiar inequities. Women in the authors' study use the cellular telephone to manage creatively their responsibilities …
Look Who's Talking
Gender on the Line: Women, the Telephone, and Community Life
Journal Article Gender on the Line: Women, the Telephone, and Community Life. By Lana F. Rakow. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. xiv + 165 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-252-01807-9.) Get access Glenna Matthews Glenna Matthews University of California, Berkeley, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Pages 756–757, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Some Good News-Bad News About a Culture-Centered Paradigm
(1992). Some Good News-Bad News About a Culture-Centered Paradigm. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 15, Communication Yearbook 15, pp. 47-57
Revisioning the Curriculum: A Commentary
(1992). Revisioning the Curriculum: A Commentary. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 92-96
Woman as Sign in Television News
Journal Article Woman as Sign in Television News Get access Lana F. Rakow, Lana F. Rakow 1Lana F. Rakow is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at the Universiry of Wisconsin-Parkside. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kimberlie Kranich Kimberlie Kranich 2Kimberlie Kranich is a feminist journalist. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
Gender studies and communication: Feminist studies: The next stage
Geographic and source biases in network television news 1982‐1984
Content analysis of 5,190 network evening news stories appearing between May 1982 and April 1984 reveals two sorts of biases: a “geographic” bias whereby some geographic areas receive far more news coverage than is due them than their populations would proportionately predict, while others receive far less, and a “source” bias showing that governmental agencies and major institutions particularly business and major political parties are the most …
Gendered technology, gendered practice
Critical discussions of technology have looked at technology and the exercise of power but have failed to look at the power relations of gender. A focus on technology as gendered illuminates technology as a site where social practices are embedded and express and extend the construction of two asymmetrical genders. Feminists point out that technology is based on the dominant masculine value system of Western culture, that women have been active c…
Looking to the Future: Five Questions for Gender Research
Rethinking Gender Research in Communication
Journal Article Rethinking Gender Research in Communication Get access Lana F. Rakow Lana F. Rakow 1Lana F. Rakow is Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Wisconsin—Parkside. An earlier version of this article was presented to the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Oklahoma, Norman, August 1986. It is based on material contained in the author's 1986 dissertations, “…
Woman as Sign in Television News
Journal Article Woman as Sign in Television News Get access Lana F. Rakow, Lana F. Rakow 1Lana F. Rakow is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at the Universiry of Wisconsin-Parkside. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kimberlie Kranich Kimberlie Kranich 2Kimberlie Kranich is a feminist journalist. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
Geographic and source biases in network television news 1982‐1984
Content analysis of 5,190 network evening news stories appearing between May 1982 and April 1984 reveals two sorts of biases: a “geographic” bias whereby some geographic areas receive far more news coverage than is due them than their populations would proportionately predict, while others receive far less, and a “source” bias showing that governmental agencies and major institutions particularly business and major political parties are the most …
Imagining Women: Cultural Representations and Gender
Part I Themes and Issues: Readings from: Richard Allen, Catherine King, Dinah Birch, Joan Swann, and Frances Bonner Part II:Literary Representations - Self as Subject: Readings from: Elaine Showalter, Maria Lauret, Lizbeth Goodman, Alicia Ostriker, Carol Rumens, Nicole Ward Jouve and Wendy Webster Part III Visual Images - Making Things Mean: Readings from: Catherine King, Michelle Cliffe, Felicity Edholm Part IV Film and Television: Readings from…
Looking to the Future: Five Questions for Gender Research
The Public at the Table: From Public Access to Public Participation
Worldviews and mediatization: In search of a metatheory
What worldview will enable communication theorists to understand the worldwide, accelerating phenomenon of media intertwining with all facets of people's lives? Shelton Gunaratne argues that Wester
Revisioning the Curriculum: A Commentary
(1992). Revisioning the Curriculum: A Commentary. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 92-96
Rethinking Gender Research in Communication
Journal Article Rethinking Gender Research in Communication Get access Lana F. Rakow Lana F. Rakow 1Lana F. Rakow is Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Wisconsin—Parkside. An earlier version of this article was presented to the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Oklahoma, Norman, August 1986. It is based on material contained in the author's 1986 dissertations, “…
Looking to the Future: Five Questions for Gender Research
Gendered technology, gendered practice
Critical discussions of technology have looked at technology and the exercise of power but have failed to look at the power relations of gender. A focus on technology as gendered illuminates technology as a site where social practices are embedded and express and extend the construction of two asymmetrical genders. Feminists point out that technology is based on the dominant masculine value system of Western culture, that women have been active c…
Gender studies and communication: Feminist studies: The next stage
Geographic and source biases in network television news 1982‐1984
Content analysis of 5,190 network evening news stories appearing between May 1982 and April 1984 reveals two sorts of biases: a “geographic” bias whereby some geographic areas receive far more news coverage than is due them than their populations would proportionately predict, while others receive far less, and a “source” bias showing that governmental agencies and major institutions particularly business and major political parties are the most …
Woman as Sign in Television News
Journal Article Woman as Sign in Television News Get access Lana F. Rakow, Lana F. Rakow 1Lana F. Rakow is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at the Universiry of Wisconsin-Parkside. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Kimberlie Kranich Kimberlie Kranich 2Kimberlie Kranich is a feminist journalist. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
Some Good News-Bad News About a Culture-Centered Paradigm
(1992). Some Good News-Bad News About a Culture-Centered Paradigm. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 15, Communication Yearbook 15, pp. 47-57
Revisioning the Curriculum: A Commentary
(1992). Revisioning the Curriculum: A Commentary. Women's Studies in Communication: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 92-96
The Curriculum Is the Future
Journal Article The Curriculum Is the Future Get access Lana F. Rakow Lana F. Rakow 1Lana F. Rakow is associate vice chancellor for undergraduate studies and associate professor of communication at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Prior to taking her current position, she was chair of the Communication Department at the same university. The author would like to acknowledge the faculty and staff of the UW-Parkside Communication Department who…
Remote mothering and the parallel shift: Women meet the cellular telephone
New technologies could have a positive impact on women's lives because of their potential to disrupt old social and political conventions. Using the recent development of the cellular telephone as an example, the authors find, however, that gender differences in the acquisition and use of this technology already are reproducing familiar inequities. Women in the authors' study use the cellular telephone to manage creatively their responsibilities …
Look Who's Talking
Gender on the Line: Women, the Telephone, and Community Life
Journal Article Gender on the Line: Women, the Telephone, and Community Life. By Lana F. Rakow. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992. xiv + 165 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-252-01807-9.) Get access Glenna Matthews Glenna Matthews University of California, Berkeley, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Pages 756–757, https://doi.org/10.2307…
Women Making Meaning: New Feminist Directions in Communication
Preface. Part 1: The Politics of Making Meaning 1. The Field Reconsidered Lana F. Rakow 2. Male is to Female as ____ is to ____: A Guided Tour of Five Feminist Frameworks for Communication Studies Kathryn Cirksena and Lisa Cuklanz 3. The Politics of Difference: Race, Class, and Women's Communication Marsha Houston 4. Accounting for Others: Feminism and Representation Keya Ganguly Part 2: Beyond the Field's Boundaries 5. Theorizing Through the Bod…
America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940. Claude S. Fischer
Imagining Women: Cultural Representations and Gender
Part I Themes and Issues: Readings from: Richard Allen, Catherine King, Dinah Birch, Joan Swann, and Frances Bonner Part II:Literary Representations - Self as Subject: Readings from: Elaine Showalter, Maria Lauret, Lizbeth Goodman, Alicia Ostriker, Carol Rumens, Nicole Ward Jouve and Wendy Webster Part III Visual Images - Making Things Mean: Readings from: Catherine King, Michelle Cliffe, Felicity Edholm Part IV Film and Television: Readings from…
The Public at the Table: From Public Access to Public Participation
Teaching Against the Text
Feminists, Media, Freed Speech
Feminist Communication Theory: Selections in Context
Feminist Communication Theory: An Introduction Part 1: Difference Difference in Feminist Communication Theory Who is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism - Paula Gunn Allen Necessity of Differences: Constructing a Positive Category of Women - Marilyn Frye Reconciling Equality to Difference: Caring (F)or Justice for People with Disabilities - Anita Silvers Becoming Post Colonial: African Women Changing the Meaning of Citizenship - Patricia McF…
Follow the Buzz: Questions about Mobile Communication Industries and Scholarly Discourse
Keywords: GenderTechnologyTheoryMethodology Additional informationNotes on contributorsLana F. RakowLana F. Rakow (PhD, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana) is a professor of communication and women studies at the University of North Dakota
What Is Theory? Puzzles and Maps as Metaphors in Communication Theory
Many handbooks, books, and articles in communication studies offer definitions of theory, as well as approaches to what are the features of theory or what makes a good theory and to what are the functions of theory or what makes a theory useful. In this essay, we configure a taxonomy of definitions of and approaches to theory through a cross-disciplinary perspective, by reflecting on the different views on theory in the discipline of communicatio…
Worldviews and mediatization: In search of a metatheory
What worldview will enable communication theorists to understand the worldwide, accelerating phenomenon of media intertwining with all facets of people's lives? Shelton Gunaratne argues that Wester
Women Making Meaning: New Feminist Directions in Communication
Metropolis and the Hinterland: Community as the Blind Spot of James Carey’s Theory of Communication
Cultural studies scholar James Carey is known for an approach to communication that drew on Harold Innis for understanding relations between the metropolis and the hinterland and John Dewey for understanding community and culture. Despite the value of his approach, Carey’s theory has a blind spot at the intersection of community and politics. He collapsed notions of community and the public and bracketed the politics of meaning-making at the loca…
Sociology (19 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Media studies (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Library science (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Media Studies and Communication (4 works)