Events – GAMAG

A feminist agenda for communication

International Association for Media & Communication Research 2026
Galway, Ireland & online (ZOOM).

🚨GAMAG Special Session
“From the GMMP to AI systems. Gender Stereotypes in Media and the Digital Ecosystem”
Lecture Room G043 – Arts Millenniuum Building, Wednesday July 1. 16.00 PM in Ireland (GMT +1)

🚨UNESCO UNITWIN On Gender, Media and ICT Panel
“Toward a Gender-Bias-Free Generative AI”
McMunn Theatre – Arts Science Building
Thursday, 2 July. 13:30 PM

🚨Post-Conference “Artificial Intelligence and Gender Equality: Envisioning and developing a Feminist Agenda”
Room HBB-G001. Human Biology Building (ATTEND ON ZOOM: https://bit.ly/GAMAG_IAMCR)
Friday, 3 July. 10:00 AM

Organizers: Gender and Communication Section, IAMCR, Global Alliance on Media and Gender – GAMAG, Gender Media & ICT UniTwin

Women’s Communication Rights in the Digital Era Conference

A Beijing+30 event.

Organized by ICNOVA – NOVA Institute of Communication with support of the ECREA Digital Culture and Communication Section.

· Dates: Thursday 18th & Friday 19th September 2025

· Location: Lisbon, Portugal

· Deadline for submission of papers: 31st January 2025

See conference website https://womcomrights25.fcsh.unl.pt for details.

CSW: Beijing +30 review of Section J “Women &…

Title: Safeguarding Women’s Communication & Digital Rights

When: March 11, 2025. 6.30-8.00 pm EST

Where: CCUN 8th Floor, 777 UN Plaza, NY. and on Zoom https://bit.ly/SectionJ_Media

Description
The Beijing Platform for Action’s Section ‘J’ called attention to the centrality of media and digital technologies for gender equality and women’s empowerment. 30 years later, indicators of change evidence a mix of snail’s pace progress on some measures, stagnation on others and regression in yet others. The parallel event is a space to evaluate the current context, to highlight areas for a gender and communication agenda and contribute to the Beijing+30 review.

The specific objectives are to:
• Review the implementation of Section J of the Beijing Platform for Action and its strategic objectives.
• Propose guidelines for an action agenda on gender and communication to promote gender equality in and through the media in the post-2030 agenda.

Organizers: WACC & GAMAG

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J is for Justice

30 years fighting for Gender Equality in the Media

Celebrate, update and actualize Section J pertaining to the importance of achieving gender equality in and through the media (and media education)

Join us online https://unipd.zoom.us/j/84536876473#success.

For questions or clarifications, email claudia.padovani@unipd.it or lucia.rodriguez@ucl.ac.uk.

GAMAG at WSIS+20: Gender Equality and Inclusion in Our…

Join GAMAG, WACC and partners at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) High Level event.

Objective: To review the Global Digital Compact and to advocate for strengthening of gender equality in the global and national digital ecosystems.

Zoom registration: https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2024/Home/Registration#remote
Then select the session “Gender equality and Inclusion in our Digital Future”. 29 May at 5pm CET

Panelists from WACC, GAMAG, UNAM, IT for Change, META, UNESCO and the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences (Jordan)

Context: The Internet, its technologies, the global digital architecture and all elements of local and global tech ecosystems today are still far from being inclusive and empowering for women and girls. A key question raised at the WSIS plus 10 review in 2013 was why the digital space had not lived up to expectations. At the time, new configurations of power had resulted in an information society that was exclusionary, with little place for women and with new forms of misogyny. Gender advocates at the time noted the marginalization of women from the agenda and exclusion from Internet governance processes. The concerns persist today, with further marginalization of women’s rights activists by key global stakeholders from crucial decision-making processes. Women’s rights are being eroded, in an era where a Global Digital Compact (GDC) is proposed as a roadmap for key digital principles globally, to be agreed on during the September 2024 Summit of the Future. Power asymmetries today have exacerbated discrimination and violence against women on the Internet. The 2022 Gender Digital Divide Index Report attests to a deepening of the divide. The Internet, including Artificial Intelligence, have sharpened inequality between women and men. The divide is evident in issues of Internet availability and affordability, digital literacy, participation in online news media, STEM education, online privacy, safety, security and trust, legislation, policy, practices and decision making. In recent times, misinformation, harmful content and sexist hate speech against women, increasing of sexual exploitation and other forms of technology-facilitated gender-based violence against women and girls, undermine democracy and human rights.