ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses academic studies that are primarily engaged in posing feminist questions related to the news media and women's rights, whether they are a matter of law, policy or practice, including different forms of news on Internet. Most of these studies involve substantial primary and secondary research in journalism studies or take an interdisciplinary approach, combining those fields with others, such as sociology, political science or international relations. The media's portrayal and interpretation of women's rights activism as social movement, and interactions between feminist advocates and female journalists have inspired great deal of academic scrutiny. In several Arab countries, feminist activists have related in interviews how they have taken to cyber-feminist media to champion women's rights. Media analysis of assault has become a sub-field in itself, and is gradually expanding to examine 'gender' rather than 'women', as well as intersections of race and class, in murder, battering, rape, sexual harassment and sex trafficking of women, including trans-women, and girls.
