“How are men represented in media platforms cross-culturally?”

A possible topic of investigation for one of my upcoming Liberal Studies Tutorials might be a cross-cultural exploration of how men are represented in media platforms across the world. Because media is a platform which purveys dominant cultural ideologies, analyzing media for how it represents men allows for a visual understanding of how different cultures construct and represent masculinity. This Tutorial would examine representations of men and masculinity in media platforms cross-culturally to develop further understanding of the
plurality of masculinities, the culturally-specific dominant forms of masculinity, an emerging
global hegemonic masculinity, and the pervasiveness of media in perpetuating masculine
stereotypes.

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