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GEMINI SPECIAL ISSUE OF
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Academic Quarter #30 explores how serial drama can be a powerful pedagogical tool for advancing gender equality across European educational and media landscapes. From high school classrooms to European youth focus groups, this issue investigates how serial dramas shape, reflect, and challenge gender norms—empowering young people as agents of change.

Featured articles include

Serial Drama as a Catalyst for Gender Equality: Introducing Gender Equality through Media Pedagogy – Kim Toft Hansen, Louise Brix Jacobsen, Susan Arnold, M. Elena D’Amelio, Raluca-Nicoleta Radu

Unpacking Gender Issues through Contemporary Serial Drama: High School Pedagogical Approaches to Gender and Media Literacy – Kim Toft Hansen, Louise Brix Jacobsen

Framing European Youth Gender Attitudes through Serial Dramas: Focus Group Insights from the GEMINI Project – Marica Spalletta, Paola De Rosa, Nicola Ferrigni

Teaching Gender Equality through Serial Drama: A Case Study of Irish Education – Izzy Fox, Sarah Arnold

An Infinite Spectrum of Colours 1: Teaching Gender Issues through Prisma – Arianna Vergari, M. Elena D’Amelio, Valentina Re, Gianluigi Rossini

An Infinite Spectrum of Colours 2: Teaching Gender Issues through Prisma: The Video Essay – Arianna Vergari, M. Elena D’Amelio, Valentina Re, Gianluigi Rossini

Gender Representation in Serial Dramas: A Reproducible Classroom Methodology for Critical Analysis – Greta Iapalucci

Teaching Sexuality and Gender: What Sex Education and Un Professore Show Us – Greta Delpanno

This issue is a must-read for educators, media scholars, and anyone interested in the intersection of youth, media, and gender justice.

GEMINI EDITED VOLUME
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We are proud to present the GEMINI Interdisciplinary Edited Volume, a booklet collection of extended abstracts that highlight the outcomes of two-and-a-half years of collaborative research within the GEMINI project. This booklet offers a concise yet insightful preview of the forthcoming academic volume titled Young Adults, Gender Issues and Serial Dramas: Research-Action Approaches to Consumptions, Patterns and Teaching in the European Mediascape, to be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2026.

The abstracts gathered here reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the GEMINI project, which has brought together scholars from across Europe to explore how young adults engage with serial dramas, and how these media forms intersect with gender issues, educational practices, and cultural consumption. Each contribution stands as evidence of the project’s commitment to research that is both academically rigorous and socially relevant.

We extend our heartfelt thanks to all contributors for their dedication, insight, and hard work. Your research has not only enriched the GEMINI project but has also laid the foundation for a publication that will contribute meaningfully to ongoing conversations in media studies, education, and gender research.

We hope this booklet offers readers a valuable introduction to the themes and findings that will be explored in greater depth in the full volume.

GEMINI academic publications

Spalletta, M., D’Amelio, M. E., & De Rosa, P. (2025). On-screen leadership models and beyond-the-screen celebrification processes in the Italian teen drama Mare fuori. Celebrity Studies, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2024.2449335.

Paola De Rosa, Nicola Ferrigni, Marica Spalletta, “Ragazzi fuori”. Il reinserimento sociale dei giovani detenuti, tra rappresentazione e realtà in “WELFARE E ERGONOMIA” 2/2024, pp 105-119, https://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/articolo/77443.    

Arnold, S., & Fox, I. (2025). Challenges and opportunities in teaching gender equality in Irish secondary schools. Gender and Education, 37(3), 364–380. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2025.2462051.

In addition to this, GEMINI publises the edited volume Young Adults, Gender Issues and Serial Dramas: Research-Action Approaches to Consumptions, Patterns and Teaching in the European Mediascape, edited by Marica Spalletta, Valentina Re, and Kim Toft Hansen (Edinburgh University Press, 2026).

Other spin-off articles will appear throughout the post-GEMINI years. Stay tuned through your academic channels – or get in touch with GEMINI scholars.