Everyone is welcome to attend the first event in the Media and Gender
Research Group's programme of autumn talks:

*Online book** launch**:** Gender**, Media and Voice: Communicative
Injustice and Public Speech*
Join author Jilly Boyce Kay and respondents Jo Littler, Catherine
Rottenberg, and Helen Wood for a discussion about feminism, voice and
justice in contemporary culture
*On Zoom, Friday October 16th, 17.00-19.00 UK time*
The introductory chapter is free to download here
<https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-47287-0_1>


Places are limited, so please email [log in to unmask] to register.


*Dr Melanie Kennedy (SFHEA)*

*Lecturer in Media and Communication*

School of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of Leicester,
Bankfield
House, 132 New Walk, Leicester, LE1 7JA

Tel: 0116 223 1624

<https://leicester.academia.edu/MelanieKennedy>
https://leicester.academia.edu/MelanieKennedy


Associate Editor, Commentary and Criticism for *Feminist Media Studies*
 (Routledge)


*Latest publication *‘*If the rise of the TikTok dance and e-girl aesthetic
has taught us anything, it’s that teenage girls rule the internet right
now’: TikTok celebrity, girls and the Coronavirus crisis*, *European
Journal of Cultural Studies* (2020) available here
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1367549420945341>.

*New books** The Wedding Spectacle Across Contemporary Media and Culture:
Something Old, Something New *(London: Routledge, 2020) available here
<https://www.routledge.com/The-Wedding-Spectacle-Across-Contemporary-Media-and-Culture-Something/Kay-Kennedy-Wood/p/book/9781138586239>
.

*And **Tweenhood: Femininity and Celebrity in Tween Popular Culture* (London:
IB Tauris, 2019) available here
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/tweenhood-9781780768427/>.

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