Karin Gwinn Wilkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 389389 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karin Gwinn Wilkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karin Gwinn |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilkins |
| SIGNATURE | WILKINS K G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7895-7967 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Feminist Gaze on Communication for Social Change
A critical appraisal of the field of feminist approaches offers a valuable critical lens to help reshape our conceptualizations of development and the roles communication may play in constructive intervention. Development communication has shifted over time from ignoring and obscuring women to recognizing gendered differences in experiences. Development approaches have also brought participatory processes into focus. However, our strategic initia…
Representing ‘development’ on Instagram: Questioning ‘what’, ‘who’, and ‘how’ of development in digital space
Development institutions communicate about development through mediated communication strategies. The advent of image-intensive digital spaces such as Instagram has facilitated communication for these institutions, making ‘development’ more accessible to the public. However, the representation of development in these institutional digital spaces remains largely unexamined. By conceptualising Instagram as an emerging context for the ‘public face o…
Advocating with Accountability for Social Justice
US prisms and prejudice through mediating the Middle East
Mediating the Middle East engages social and political constructions that articulate sentiment within the United States, with consequences not only to foreign policies and relationships, but also to experiences of Arab and Muslim citizens. Engagement with media narratives is expected to become particularly relevant when people do not share a resonating identity or direct experience with the community being projected. I position this research as a…
Mapping the political discourse of the Iranian Green Movement
This article problematizes five central themes regarding Qajar art in general and erotic representation in Qajar art in particular. It addresses the continued existence of the tropes that the Qajar era is not worthy of serious academic study; that concern with erotica at that time was a uniquely elite concern resulting from their debased morality; that erotica was a particularly Eastern, read Iranian, addiction in contradistinction to the morally…
Introduction to Editorship 2016: Introduction to Editorship 2016
Welcome to the next phase of our eminent journal Communication Theory, one of several exemplary publications administered through the International Communication Association. I look forward to serving as your editor over the next 4 years. First, I introduce our mission statement. Following that, I present an overview of goals for our journal. Communication Theory offers a distinguished global forum for dialogue on critical theoretical issues in c…
The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
The politics of political communication: Competing news discourses of the 2011 Egyptian protests
The world witnessed the Egyptian community building political protests toward fundamental government change in early 2011. This research explores how news discourse across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and the U.S. constructed these political protests, and how media figure in their narratives. Digital media became central characters in the U.S. version, which often referred to events in Egypt as a ‘facebook revolution’. We question whether this e…
The privatization of development through global communication industries: Living Proof
Development is meant to alleviate problems in the interests of the public good, yet the growing dominance of private donors problematizes this conceptualization. Working through a political-economic analysis of development, we see global communications as an industry that channels wealth from citizens into the hands of few corporate moguls, who then have the resources to assert their agendas in a global development context. We begin by conceptual…
Wearing shades in the bright future of digital media: Limitations of narratives of media power in Egyptian resistance
Political engagement means more than reliance on a single medium, but requires collective human action. In making this argument, I consider how the media landscape, along with social and political contexts, have contributed to this process of shifting political power in Egypt. This background contextualizes the limitations of a dominant Hollywood narrative in U.S. media, not only telling a reductive tale of hero, victim and villain, but also priv…
Mapping Fear and Danger in Global Space: Arab Americans’ and Others’ Engagement with Action-Adventure Film
This article explores how Arab American and other US-based communities map global place, fear and danger through their engagement with action-adventure film. While there is extensive literature demonstrating the limited characterization of Arab communities, of Islam and of the Middle East, we know much less about the consequences of these media portrayals. In discussions of action-adventure settings, Arab American groups and informants were much …
Home/Land/Security: What We Learn about Arab Communities from Action-Adventure Films
"Karin Gwinn Wilkins interviews focus groups composed of a diverse cross-section of Americans and analyzes their interpretations of action-adventure film villains of Middle Eastern descent. Wilkins addresses the neglected empirical link between documented media stereotypes of Arab communities and the lived consequences of these portrayals, both in terms of discriminatory practices and generalizations."--Jacket
The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
The M.A. degree offered through the Communication & Development Studies program focuses on using communication to promote social change. Emerging Issues in Communicating Development and Social Change. Karin Gwinn The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change. is a Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences and Human Development & Family Communication and intimacy for older adults, and the Routledge Handbook of class in popular media…
Reconsidering Geometries of Development
We argue that the dominant geometry of development should be discarded, given the many limitations this model imposes on development policies and programs. Following a description of the dominant geometry of development, we critique this conceptualization based on grounds of morality and validity. Referencing illustrations of Japan as a development donor and the Chipko movement as an engaged community, we argue that new alternative geometries of …
Communication and Transition in the Middle East: A Critical Analysis of US Intervention and Academic Literature
US intervention in the Middle East builds on a problematic assumption that western technology and knowledge will transform the region into modern, democratic nation-states. The Arab Middle East in particular tends to be constructed in public discourse as suffering from social, political and economic hardships, in order to justify military action and development assistance. In this article, the author considers and critiques recent development int…
The Civil Intifada: 1 The Power and Politics of the Palestinian Census
The Palestinian census of December 1997 holds both symbolic power, grounding a national identity within an intended modern, sovereign structure, and instrumental value, serving as a basis for social and economic development. Some scholars privilege the role of domination in this enumeration process, imposing official categorizations on people for the purpose of state control. However, in this article I argue that the census also has the potential…
Shifting frames of the Palestinian movement in US news
In this research, we explore the conditions under which US news media coverage of the Palestinian movement for independence has shifted over time, in relation to changes in the movement and in the political and social contexts in which it has taken place. To measure shifts in media attention and media frames over time we examined the coverage of Palestinian issues in the New York Times and the Associated Press between 1984 and 1998. Media coverag…
Reshaping Development Communication: Developing Communication and Communicating Development
Journal Article Reshaping Development Communication: Developing Communication and Communicating Development Get access Karin Gwinn Wilkins, Karin Gwinn Wilkins 1The College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bella Mody Bella Mody 2Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume…
Development Discourse on Gender and Communication in Strategies for Social Change
In this paper, I explore institutional discourse on the role of gender in constructions of development communication beneficiaries and on the process of social change facilitated through communication intervention. Analyses are based on descriptions of health, nutrition, and population projects implemented by several organizations since 1975. Since the Decade for Women, development communication projects have focused their attention on women and …
Media and identity in Hong Kong
Hong Kong: a mediated symbol of the decline of the British Empire and of the sovereignty of the People's Republic of China (P.R.C.). U.S. news coverage of Hong Kong's historic transition dramatized one set of flags for Britain being lowered while another set for the P.R.C. was raised on the eve of July 1, 1997. The ceremony itself, orchestrated carefully for media coverage, moved from Prince Charles—declaring Britain's responsibilities to Hong Ko…
Development communication
Development communication involves the strategic use of communication for the alleviation of social problems in evolving societies. As such it is an area where questions about the role(s) of media in encouraging or inhibiting social change are absolutely central. In this essay, I review some of the central problems in designing comunication campaigns for social change in developing countries
Gender, News Media Exposure and Political Cynicism: Public Opinion of Hong Kong's Future Transition
Marginalized from the center of power, women in Hong Kong may be particularly vulnerable to the future political transition, as the territory prepares for an exchange from British to Chinese rule. How do women feel about the impending changes in Hong Kong? According to results from a recent (April 1993) representative telephone survey in Hong Kong (n = 502), women are less likely to have faith in the political future of Hong Kong than men. Moreov…
Politics of Everyday Life: Continuity and Change in Work and the Family
Shifting frames of the Palestinian movement in US news
In this research, we explore the conditions under which US news media coverage of the Palestinian movement for independence has shifted over time, in relation to changes in the movement and in the political and social contexts in which it has taken place. To measure shifts in media attention and media frames over time we examined the coverage of Palestinian issues in the New York Times and the Associated Press between 1984 and 1998. Media coverag…
The privatization of development through global communication industries: Living Proof
Development is meant to alleviate problems in the interests of the public good, yet the growing dominance of private donors problematizes this conceptualization. Working through a political-economic analysis of development, we see global communications as an industry that channels wealth from citizens into the hands of few corporate moguls, who then have the resources to assert their agendas in a global development context. We begin by conceptual…
Reshaping Development Communication: Developing Communication and Communicating Development
Journal Article Reshaping Development Communication: Developing Communication and Communicating Development Get access Karin Gwinn Wilkins, Karin Gwinn Wilkins 1The College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bella Mody Bella Mody 2Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume…
The politics of political communication: Competing news discourses of the 2011 Egyptian protests
The world witnessed the Egyptian community building political protests toward fundamental government change in early 2011. This research explores how news discourse across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and the U.S. constructed these political protests, and how media figure in their narratives. Digital media became central characters in the U.S. version, which often referred to events in Egypt as a ‘facebook revolution’. We question whether this e…
Communication and Transition in the Middle East: A Critical Analysis of US Intervention and Academic Literature
US intervention in the Middle East builds on a problematic assumption that western technology and knowledge will transform the region into modern, democratic nation-states. The Arab Middle East in particular tends to be constructed in public discourse as suffering from social, political and economic hardships, in order to justify military action and development assistance. In this article, the author considers and critiques recent development int…
Gender, News Media Exposure and Political Cynicism: Public Opinion of Hong Kong's Future Transition
Marginalized from the center of power, women in Hong Kong may be particularly vulnerable to the future political transition, as the territory prepares for an exchange from British to Chinese rule. How do women feel about the impending changes in Hong Kong? According to results from a recent (April 1993) representative telephone survey in Hong Kong (n = 502), women are less likely to have faith in the political future of Hong Kong than men. Moreov…
Mapping Fear and Danger in Global Space: Arab Americans’ and Others’ Engagement with Action-Adventure Film
This article explores how Arab American and other US-based communities map global place, fear and danger through their engagement with action-adventure film. While there is extensive literature demonstrating the limited characterization of Arab communities, of Islam and of the Middle East, we know much less about the consequences of these media portrayals. In discussions of action-adventure settings, Arab American groups and informants were much …
Media and identity in Hong Kong
Hong Kong: a mediated symbol of the decline of the British Empire and of the sovereignty of the People's Republic of China (P.R.C.). U.S. news coverage of Hong Kong's historic transition dramatized one set of flags for Britain being lowered while another set for the P.R.C. was raised on the eve of July 1, 1997. The ceremony itself, orchestrated carefully for media coverage, moved from Prince Charles—declaring Britain's responsibilities to Hong Ko…
Introduction to Editorship 2016: Introduction to Editorship 2016
Welcome to the next phase of our eminent journal Communication Theory, one of several exemplary publications administered through the International Communication Association. I look forward to serving as your editor over the next 4 years. First, I introduce our mission statement. Following that, I present an overview of goals for our journal. Communication Theory offers a distinguished global forum for dialogue on critical theoretical issues in c…
Wearing shades in the bright future of digital media: Limitations of narratives of media power in Egyptian resistance
Political engagement means more than reliance on a single medium, but requires collective human action. In making this argument, I consider how the media landscape, along with social and political contexts, have contributed to this process of shifting political power in Egypt. This background contextualizes the limitations of a dominant Hollywood narrative in U.S. media, not only telling a reductive tale of hero, victim and villain, but also priv…
The Civil Intifada: 1 The Power and Politics of the Palestinian Census
The Palestinian census of December 1997 holds both symbolic power, grounding a national identity within an intended modern, sovereign structure, and instrumental value, serving as a basis for social and economic development. Some scholars privilege the role of domination in this enumeration process, imposing official categorizations on people for the purpose of state control. However, in this article I argue that the census also has the potential…
Politics of Everyday Life: Continuity and Change in Work and the Family
Gender, News Media Exposure and Political Cynicism: Public Opinion of Hong Kong's Future Transition
Marginalized from the center of power, women in Hong Kong may be particularly vulnerable to the future political transition, as the territory prepares for an exchange from British to Chinese rule. How do women feel about the impending changes in Hong Kong? According to results from a recent (April 1993) representative telephone survey in Hong Kong (n = 502), women are less likely to have faith in the political future of Hong Kong than men. Moreov…
Development communication
Development communication involves the strategic use of communication for the alleviation of social problems in evolving societies. As such it is an area where questions about the role(s) of media in encouraging or inhibiting social change are absolutely central. In this essay, I review some of the central problems in designing comunication campaigns for social change in developing countries
Media and identity in Hong Kong
Hong Kong: a mediated symbol of the decline of the British Empire and of the sovereignty of the People's Republic of China (P.R.C.). U.S. news coverage of Hong Kong's historic transition dramatized one set of flags for Britain being lowered while another set for the P.R.C. was raised on the eve of July 1, 1997. The ceremony itself, orchestrated carefully for media coverage, moved from Prince Charles—declaring Britain's responsibilities to Hong Ko…
Development Discourse on Gender and Communication in Strategies for Social Change
In this paper, I explore institutional discourse on the role of gender in constructions of development communication beneficiaries and on the process of social change facilitated through communication intervention. Analyses are based on descriptions of health, nutrition, and population projects implemented by several organizations since 1975. Since the Decade for Women, development communication projects have focused their attention on women and …
Reshaping Development Communication: Developing Communication and Communicating Development
Journal Article Reshaping Development Communication: Developing Communication and Communicating Development Get access Karin Gwinn Wilkins, Karin Gwinn Wilkins 1The College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bella Mody Bella Mody 2Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume…
Shifting frames of the Palestinian movement in US news
In this research, we explore the conditions under which US news media coverage of the Palestinian movement for independence has shifted over time, in relation to changes in the movement and in the political and social contexts in which it has taken place. To measure shifts in media attention and media frames over time we examined the coverage of Palestinian issues in the New York Times and the Associated Press between 1984 and 1998. Media coverag…
Reconsidering Geometries of Development
We argue that the dominant geometry of development should be discarded, given the many limitations this model imposes on development policies and programs. Following a description of the dominant geometry of development, we critique this conceptualization based on grounds of morality and validity. Referencing illustrations of Japan as a development donor and the Chipko movement as an engaged community, we argue that new alternative geometries of …
Communication and Transition in the Middle East: A Critical Analysis of US Intervention and Academic Literature
US intervention in the Middle East builds on a problematic assumption that western technology and knowledge will transform the region into modern, democratic nation-states. The Arab Middle East in particular tends to be constructed in public discourse as suffering from social, political and economic hardships, in order to justify military action and development assistance. In this article, the author considers and critiques recent development int…
The Civil Intifada: 1 The Power and Politics of the Palestinian Census
The Palestinian census of December 1997 holds both symbolic power, grounding a national identity within an intended modern, sovereign structure, and instrumental value, serving as a basis for social and economic development. Some scholars privilege the role of domination in this enumeration process, imposing official categorizations on people for the purpose of state control. However, in this article I argue that the census also has the potential…
The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
The M.A. degree offered through the Communication & Development Studies program focuses on using communication to promote social change. Emerging Issues in Communicating Development and Social Change. Karin Gwinn The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change. is a Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences and Human Development & Family Communication and intimacy for older adults, and the Routledge Handbook of class in popular media…
Home/Land/Security: What We Learn about Arab Communities from Action-Adventure Films
"Karin Gwinn Wilkins interviews focus groups composed of a diverse cross-section of Americans and analyzes their interpretations of action-adventure film villains of Middle Eastern descent. Wilkins addresses the neglected empirical link between documented media stereotypes of Arab communities and the lived consequences of these portrayals, both in terms of discriminatory practices and generalizations."--Jacket
Mapping Fear and Danger in Global Space: Arab Americans’ and Others’ Engagement with Action-Adventure Film
This article explores how Arab American and other US-based communities map global place, fear and danger through their engagement with action-adventure film. While there is extensive literature demonstrating the limited characterization of Arab communities, of Islam and of the Middle East, we know much less about the consequences of these media portrayals. In discussions of action-adventure settings, Arab American groups and informants were much …
Wearing shades in the bright future of digital media: Limitations of narratives of media power in Egyptian resistance
Political engagement means more than reliance on a single medium, but requires collective human action. In making this argument, I consider how the media landscape, along with social and political contexts, have contributed to this process of shifting political power in Egypt. This background contextualizes the limitations of a dominant Hollywood narrative in U.S. media, not only telling a reductive tale of hero, victim and villain, but also priv…
The privatization of development through global communication industries: Living Proof
Development is meant to alleviate problems in the interests of the public good, yet the growing dominance of private donors problematizes this conceptualization. Working through a political-economic analysis of development, we see global communications as an industry that channels wealth from citizens into the hands of few corporate moguls, who then have the resources to assert their agendas in a global development context. We begin by conceptual…
The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
The politics of political communication: Competing news discourses of the 2011 Egyptian protests
The world witnessed the Egyptian community building political protests toward fundamental government change in early 2011. This research explores how news discourse across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and the U.S. constructed these political protests, and how media figure in their narratives. Digital media became central characters in the U.S. version, which often referred to events in Egypt as a ‘facebook revolution’. We question whether this e…
Introduction to Editorship 2016: Introduction to Editorship 2016
Welcome to the next phase of our eminent journal Communication Theory, one of several exemplary publications administered through the International Communication Association. I look forward to serving as your editor over the next 4 years. First, I introduce our mission statement. Following that, I present an overview of goals for our journal. Communication Theory offers a distinguished global forum for dialogue on critical theoretical issues in c…
Mapping the political discourse of the Iranian Green Movement
This article problematizes five central themes regarding Qajar art in general and erotic representation in Qajar art in particular. It addresses the continued existence of the tropes that the Qajar era is not worthy of serious academic study; that concern with erotica at that time was a uniquely elite concern resulting from their debased morality; that erotica was a particularly Eastern, read Iranian, addiction in contradistinction to the morally…
US prisms and prejudice through mediating the Middle East
Mediating the Middle East engages social and political constructions that articulate sentiment within the United States, with consequences not only to foreign policies and relationships, but also to experiences of Arab and Muslim citizens. Engagement with media narratives is expected to become particularly relevant when people do not share a resonating identity or direct experience with the community being projected. I position this research as a…
Advocating with Accountability for Social Justice
Representing ‘development’ on Instagram: Questioning ‘what’, ‘who’, and ‘how’ of development in digital space
Development institutions communicate about development through mediated communication strategies. The advent of image-intensive digital spaces such as Instagram has facilitated communication for these institutions, making ‘development’ more accessible to the public. However, the representation of development in these institutional digital spaces remains largely unexamined. By conceptualising Instagram as an emerging context for the ‘public face o…
The Feminist Gaze on Communication for Social Change
A critical appraisal of the field of feminist approaches offers a valuable critical lens to help reshape our conceptualizations of development and the roles communication may play in constructive intervention. Development communication has shifted over time from ignoring and obscuring women to recognizing gendered differences in experiences. Development approaches have also brought participatory processes into focus. However, our strategic initia…
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