“Challenging it softly”: a feminist inquiry into gender in the news media context

Cruz-Santos, Anabela; Cerqueira, Carla Preciosa Braga; Cabecinhas, Rosa

doi:10.1080/14680777.2018.1465445

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“…Media discourse therefore does not only shape and maintain gender inequality; it produces, reproduces and naturalises gender inequality. In this context media discourse is a gendered practice as it is directly linked to socio-cultural production of meaning in a given social context (Santos, Cerqueira, and Cabecinhas 2018).…”

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“…In this binary mode, the first group is favoured over the second group. Discursively, women are defined as the occupants of the second group in the binary opposition mode with a prevailed embedded sexism (Santos, Cerqueira, and Cabecinhas 2018). However, this binary option is problematic, because within a culturally embedded patriarchal ideology, women would normally be perceived as second-class on one hand and determinants of a societal progress on the other (Kanemoto and Collins 2017;Isaacs 2016;Isaacs and Mthembu 2018).…”

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Botswana Print Media and the Representation of Female Victims of Intimate Partner Homicide: A Critical Discourse Analytical Approach

Bagai

Faimau

2021

African Journalism Studies

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Intimate partner homicide (IPH) has become one of the most challenging socio-cultural issues in contemporary Botswana. This paper seeks to examine how female victims of IPH are represented in the Botswana print media. Drawing on data collected from 63 newspaper articles published in four Botswana newspapers between January 2010 and December 2013, the study found that the Botswana print media outlets generally do not represent female victims of IPH in a fair manner as they maintain denigration, degradation and infantilisation of women in their reports. At a macro level, this representation seems to be influenced by an embedded patriarchal ideology. At a micro level, media coverage of intimate femicide tends to sensationalise the causes of passion killings by employing a victim-blaming frame in the representations of the female victims. Using a Critical Discourse Analytical approach, we argue that this mode of media representation does not only maintain the existing gender inequality but also reinforces, perpetuates and naturalises a vicious gender circle. While media reports may have translated the embedded patriarchal ideology to its reporting on the female victims of IPH, we suggest that efforts to achieve gender equality should involve public education including gender-sensitive reporting by public and private print media.

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Botswana Print Media and the Representation of Female Victims of Intimate Partner Homicide: A Critical Discourse Analytical Approach

Bagai

Faimau

2021

African Journalism Studies

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“…Newsrooms are still male-dominated, with the result that decisions about what is newsworthy represent a male perspective (Ross and Carter, 2011). Therefore, news media are considered to reproduce structural inequalities, not only because imbalances at the societal level exist but also because of imbalances in the newsrooms themselves (Santos et al, 2018).…”

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Situational effects of journalistic resources on gender imbalances in the coverage of Swiss news media: A longitudinal analysis from 2011 to 2019

Vogler

Schwaiger

2021

Journalism

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Gender imbalances in news coverage have been traced back to overarching societal structures and the characteristics of media companies, newsrooms and journalists. However, studies have rarely considered if and how journalistic resources can act situationally as drivers of gender imbalances. We investigated how often and in which contexts women are represented in Swiss news media articles between 2011 and 2019 ( n = 77,427) by combining manual and automated content analysis on a large scale. We looked at representation in general and the dependence of topic and media type, in addition to the influence of two resource-related features of news content: the source and the format. The study showed clear gender imbalances, which were heavily dependent on the topics in the news coverage. We found that when journalists relied on original reporting instead of news agencies and used contextualizing formats women were more frequently mentioned in the news. Our results, therefore, suggest that resources can situationally determine the representation of women in the news.

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“…Tal como acontece também noutros contextos (ver, por exemplo, García-Ramos et al, 2000), em Portugal esta é uma questão que tem sido colocada ao longo dos anos no âmbito da investigação académica e das políticas públicas. Há uma escassez de formação nesta área, sobretudo no que toca às futuras e aos futuros profissionais da comunicação, que chegam ao mercado de trabalho e não estão preparados para trabalhar com estas temáticas e muitas vezes nem reconhecem a sua pertinência (Santos et al, 2018).…”

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Da teoria à prática: as questões de género nos planos curriculares dos cursos superiores de comunicação

Cerqueira

2021

Br. J. Ed., Tech. Soc.

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The inclusion of gender equality, intersectionality and human rights issues in the various spheres of action related to education and training is becoming a priority in the field of research and action, since it can contribute to a more inclusive society and promote greater social justice. Thus, in this article we focus on the Portuguese context and analyse the plans of higher education courses in the first degree of the communication area with the aim of understanding if there are curricular units that present contents related to gender, intersectionality and human rights issues and what is their importance in the design of the courses that train professionals in the various areas of communication. In line with other studies developed in other contexts, in this exploratory analysis we conclude that there are practically no curricular units that focus on the themes of gender equality, intersectionality and human rights. This absence shows that these issues are not considered as a priority in education and training agendas, which may have impacts on professional development in areas as central as those involved in the fields of communication.

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“Challenging it softly”: a feminist inquiry into gender in the news media context

Cited by 10 publications

References 23 publications

Botswana Print Media and the Representation of Female Victims of Intimate Partner Homicide: A Critical Discourse Analytical Approach

Botswana Print Media and the Representation of Female Victims of Intimate Partner Homicide: A Critical Discourse Analytical Approach

Situational effects of journalistic resources on gender imbalances in the coverage of Swiss news media: A longitudinal analysis from 2011 to 2019

Da teoria à prática: as questões de género nos planos curriculares dos cursos superiores de comunicação

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