Attention to racial/ethnic and gender issues in the media is of vital importance in our society – not only for researchers but also for teachers and students. This panel represents a selection of new material appearing in the third edition of Rebecca Ann Lind’s “Race/Gender/Media,” to be released in January 2012 by Allyn & Bacon. With almost all of the readings new to this edition, the book and the panel considers race, gender, and class issues in the media from the perspective of audiences, content, and production. This is conceived as a “high-density” session, with panelists presenting short, conversational overviews of their work. Following the overviews, the floor will be open for discussion and question-and-answers regarding the work itself and how the research can be incorporated into a classroom setting – even a lower-division undergraduate course. We are consciously not including a respondent, because we want to allow more time for interchange among all participants – panelists and audience members. A similar format has been used to present new work from the prior two editions of the book, and it was well-received by the audience (hence the “3.0” in the session title). All of the work to be presented here is new, and has not been presented at any other conference. Moderator: Rebecca Ann Lind, University of Illinois at Chicago Panelists: Lori Bindig, Sacred Heart University; Media Literacy in Eating Disorder Treatment Leslie A Grinner, Syracuse University; Bella’s Choice: Deconstructing Ideology and Power in The Twilight Saga Stacey Irwin, Millersville University; Mothers in Media Diego Costa, University of Southern California; Becoming Modular: The (Re-)Assembled Queer “Male” Body and Its Digitally-Enabled Sexual Economy Melinda S Krakow, San Francisco State University; Michelle A. Wolf, San Francisco State University; Rebecca Taff, San Francisco State University; Women with Physical Disabilities, Body Image, Media, and Self-Conception Travis Lars Gosa, Cornell University; Crank Dat Barack Obama! Social Media and the 2008 Presidential Election Cindy S. Vincent, University of Oklahoma; POOR Magazine and Civic Engagement through Community Media Kiana Cox, University of Illinois at Chicago; Gender and Race as Meaning Systems: Understanding Theoretical, Historical, and Institutional Implications of Sexualized Imagery in Rap Music Dina Ibrahim, San Francisco State University; Aymen Abdel Halim, San Francisco State University; How TV News Makes Arabs and Muslims Feel about Themselves Mark Saxenmeyer, KSTP-TV; Exploring Gay/Straight Relationships on Local Television News
