I’m an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Wayne State University in Detroit.
My research focuses on journalism, digitalization and public spheres; media and gender; media and minorities; the democratic potential of social media; online harassment and abuse; counter publics and media; feminist media and women in journalism.
My teaching experience includes classes on qualitative research methods; interviewing as a research method; feminist media theory; journalism and new media; “the dark sides of social media,” introduction to news reporting, writing and editing; introduction to broadcast news writing, reporting and editing; media literacy; and media and journalism history.
Email: stine.eckert@wayne.edu
Bluesky: stineeckert@bksy.social
LinkedIn: Stine Eckert
We Can Do Better: Feminist Manifestos for Media and Communication (2025) brings together evidence-based manifestos for media and communication that take a feminist perspective and add up to a provocative vision of feminist media practices and of feminist communication. Order here.
The book discusses critical problems and complaints in ways that identify and make the case for actionable, concrete solutions to media problems and deficiencies; it shows how feminist thinking can be usefully and effectively applied to a wide range of journalism, media, and communication practices. The manifestos are not “only” about women but rather offer specific, feasible blueprints for restructuring media in ways that make them fairer and more equitable along many vectors of identity, so that media can better serve democracy. These manifestos give concrete solutions to specific problems that can and should be implemented by journalists, media practitioners, students, faculty, and scholars. The manifestos are organized around three sets of demands: for better media practices, for more participatory online spaces, and for more precise and appropriate language.
Contributions by Linda Steiner, Stine Eckert, Frieda Werden, Lori Kido Lopez, Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Carolyn Kitch, Denetra Walker, Erin L. Perry, Summer Harlow, Dustin Harp, Carolina Velloso, Dafna Lemish, Gina M. Masullo, Kim Hong Nguyen, Katy Fulfer, Eve Ng, Jade Metzger-Riftkin, Amara Imari Brighe Sugalski, Sahar Khamis and Miglena Sternadori.
This collection brings together ten of the most distinguished feminist scholars whose work has been celebrated for its excellence in helping to lay the foundation of feminist communication and media research. Order here.
This edited volume features contributions by the first ten renowned communication and media scholars that have received the Teresa Award for the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship from the Feminist Scholarship Division (FSD) of the International Communication Association (ICA): Patrice M. Buzzanell, Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Radha Sarma Hegde, Dafna Lemish, Radhika Parameswaran, Lana F. Rakow, Karen Ross, H. Leslie Steeves, Linda Steiner, and Angharad N. Valdivia. These distinguished scholars reflect on the contributions they have made to different subfields of media and communication scholarship, and offer invaluable insight into their own paths as feminist scholars. They each reflect on matters of power, agency, privilege, ethics, intersectionality, resilience, and positionality, address their own shortcomings and struggles, and look ahead to potential future directions in the field. Last but not least, they come together to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women, marginalized people, and vulnerable populations, and to underline the crucial need for feminist communication and media scholarship to move beyond Eurocentrism toward an ethics of care and global feminist positionality.
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