“I Realized It Was About Them … Not Me”: Women Sports Journalists and Harassment

Everbach, Tracy

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-72917-6_7

Cited by 81 publications

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“…The challenges facing female journalists have also been well-documented (e.g., Andsager, 1990; Brann & Himes, 2010; Desmond & Danilewicz, 2010; Everbach, 2018), and they are perhaps more evident in the field of sports journalism. In terms of sheer numbers, men outnumber women as sports journalists and in senior positions such as sports editors (Laucella, Hardin, Bien-Aimé, & Antunovic, 2017; Miller & Miller, 1995).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Elevator Eyes” in Sports Broadcasting: Visual Objectification of Male and Female Sports Reporters

Cummins

Ortiz

Rankine

2018

Communication & Sport

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Despite considerable research exploring female objectification in sports, researchers have not explored differences in how they are actually watched by audiences in terms of distribution of visual attention. Such differences can provide objective evidence of objectification by demonstrating a gender bias in terms of visual attention to female reporters’ bodies. This experiment ( N = 66) employs eye tracking to measure how much attention viewers allocated to male and female reporters’ bodies versus their faces, as well as differences in perceived credibility as a function of reporter gender. Results revealed a greater ratio of time on female reporters’ bodies to their faces relative to male reporters. This effect was most evident among viewers with reduced interest in sports. Furthermore, visual attention to reporters’ bodies—a passive measure of objectification—was largely unrelated to perceived credibility. Implications of these findings are discussed with respect to female objectification in sports and how this might inform program production personnel.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Elevator Eyes” in Sports Broadcasting: Visual Objectification of Male and Female Sports Reporters

Cummins

Ortiz

Rankine

2018

Communication & Sport

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“…This undervalued labor has been assumed to be feminine and disproportionately falls to women (Duffy & Pruchniewska, 2017). Considering journalists specifically, studies suggest that female journalists are subject to extensive harassment and trolling online (Everbach, 2018; Ferrier & Garud-Patkar, 2018). Female journalists, especially those who appear on television or in video, are judged (often harshly) on their appearance, sometimes over and above, or in place of, their professional skill (Bock, Cueva Chacón, Jung, Sturm, & Figueroa, 2018; Pain & Chen, 2018).…”

Section: Gender and Gendered Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Personalized Self-image: Gender and Branding Practices Among Journalists

Molyneux

2019

Social Media + Society

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As the field of journalism becomes increasingly unrecognizable, the messages that identify the journalist, their work, and their affiliations are of increasing importance. This study envisions journalism and social media both as gendered spaces and examines their intersection as the setting of much of journalists’ branding work. In this setting, gender’s influence on the extent, style, and target of journalists’ branding efforts is examined using data from two different datasets (content analysis and survey). The findings suggest that female journalists take a more personalized approach by speaking about themselves in their profiles and their tweets and focusing more resources and attention on their individual brands. This suggests that female journalists are not well served by male-dominated news organizations and therefore turn to a more personalized self-image in their branding efforts. This understanding is particularly important as societies and newsrooms both work toward a more inclusive, egalitarian future.

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“…While a person's gender is a product of social constructions, it has real-life consequences (Cook 2016;Everbach 2018;Naegler and Salman 2016) that manifest in the virtual as they do in the real world. The manifestations of these real-life repercussions of gender are less obscured if people's perceptions of digital crimes are framed with the TCF alongside feminist criminology perspectives than with the term "cybercrime" and the binary typologies.…”

Section: Gendering Online Harassment (Psychosocial Category)mentioning

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Just married: the synergy between feminist criminology and the Tripartite Cybercrime Framework

Lazarus¹

2019

Int Social Sci J

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This article is a theoretical treatment of feminist epistemology of crime, which advocates the centrality of gender as a theoretical starting point for the investigating of digital crimes. It does so by exploring the synergy between the feminist perspectives and the Tripartite Cybercrime Framework (TCF) (which argues that three possible factors motivate cybercrimes – socioeconomic, psychosocial, and geopolitical) to critique mainstream criminology and the meaning of the term “cybercrime”. Additionally, the article examines gender gaps in online harassment, cyber‐bullying, cyber‐fraud, revenge porn, and cyber‐stalking to demonstrate that who is victimised, why, and to what effect are the critical starting points for the analysis of the connections between gender and crimes. In turn, it uses the lens of intersectionality to acknowledge that, while conceptions of gender and crime interact, they intersect with other categories (e.g., sexuality) to provide additional layers of explanation. To nuance the utilitarian value of the synergy between the TCF and the feminist perspectives, the focus shifts to a recent case study (which compared socioeconomic and psychosocial cybercrimes). The article concludes that, while online and offline lives are inextricably intertwined, the victimisations in psychosocial cybercrimes may be more gendered than in socioeconomic cybercrimes. These contributions align the TCF to the feminist epistemology of crime in their attempt to move gender analysis of digital crimes “from margin to centre”.

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“I Realized It Was About Them … Not Me”: Women Sports Journalists and Harassment

Cited by 81 publications

References 21 publications

“Elevator Eyes” in Sports Broadcasting: Visual Objectification of Male and Female Sports Reporters

“Elevator Eyes” in Sports Broadcasting: Visual Objectification of Male and Female Sports Reporters

A Personalized Self-image: Gender and Branding Practices Among Journalists

Just married: the synergy between feminist criminology and the Tripartite Cybercrime Framework

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