CSGGE Lunch Series, "Gender Equity in an Inequitable Era" will host Shaimaa Khanam, Graduate Student in the Department of Communication. Her talk, "Audiences interpretations of gender problems based on Netflix show, Adolescence”, will take place on October 8th at 12pm in person at 306 Coble Hall and virtually. Lunch provided for in-person attendees.

"Shai's research centers gender violence and meaningful media experiences, looking at how entertainment media and cultural narratives shape social cognition. She investigates how media can invite audiences into different social realities, fostering empathy and belief change, and create shifts in worldview that reduce harmful social norms. She takes a transformative mixed-methods approach to research, using interviews, surveys, and experiments to study how audiences are influenced by entertainment and social media."

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