Men, Masculinity, and the Media

Craig, Steve

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“…In the tradition of seeing gender as a social construct (Kimmel, 1987;Connell, 1995), men and masculinity should be seen as constructed and hence problematized. Craig (1992) shows that gender-focused research upon media has mainly concentrated on women and, until men's studies began in the late 1980s, men have been treated as the norm and unproblematic in most media studies. Fejes (1992), concluding previous research on media content, gives an assessment that media represents a heavily stereotypical view of masculinity.…”

Section: Changing Representation Of Men In Estonian News Media In Thementioning

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Gender aspects of media tabloidization process in Estonia

Pilvre¹

2012

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This article tackles the gender aspects of media tabloidization process, by empirical research on Estonian press and TV of the transition period 1990s-2000s. It shows, how media tabloidization/commercialization is gendered and how ambivalent is media's position in representing and reproducing gender order. Media, by tabloidization, legitimizes the shift of the gendered public-private borders in the society and from the other side, media acts as a maintaining factor of gender order as reproducing, producing and legitimizing patriarchal gender patterns. Discursive order, reproduced in media, clearly sets areas of expected expertize for both genders: everyday life, home, human relations for women; public issues, technology for men. Women are typically depicted in the context of or speak on TV on themes which Bourdieu called extensions of private sphere in the public. Media legitimizes gender order by representing this as a default division and it tackles separately exceptions from this division: by textual and visual means media constructs women in male-dominated areas as disturbance of gender order. Commercial pressures, fostering stereotypical images of women, accord with patriarchal frameworks of representing women. In Estonia as a postsoviet transition society, commercialization process is amplified by deep societal changes and value crisis, seen as a broader context for narrow and prejudiced representations of women. Increase in the number of women in media content that typically bring private issues into media, is influencing media intimization and personalization processes, and is seen as a result and also means of tabloidization. Democratizing potential of those representations is questioned.

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Section: Changing Representation Of Men In Estonian News Media In Thementioning

confidence: 99%

Gender aspects of media tabloidization process in Estonia

Pilvre¹

2012

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“…These include studies of the gendered production and forms media texts (Fiske 1987); representations of femininity and feminist media studies (Betterton 1987;Koivunen and Paasonen 2001); imaging men and masculinities (Craig 1992;Jokinen 2000Jokinen , 2003; specific cultural productions, such as films Moreover, mass media has routinely used sexuality for a long time. And in a sense sexualities have used mass media.…”

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“…Innehållsmässigt har studier visat på skillnader såväl i var (i vilka sammanhang) kvinnor och män förekommer samt hur de framställs, det vill säga den relevans mediers föreställning har för de idéer om genus som florerar (se t ex van Zoonen 1994;Tuchmann 1978;Craig 1992). Inom journalistiken fungerar genus som ett (kanske det främsta) särskiljande och kategoriserande element.…”

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Unge, køn og pornografi i Norden

2007

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TemaNord 2006:544 Det nordiske samarbeidDet nordiske samarbeid er en av verdens mest omfattende regionale samarbeidsformer. Samarbeidet omfatter Danmark, Finland, Island, Norge og Sverige, samt de selvstyrende områdene Faerøyene, Grønland og Åland.Det nordiske samarbeid er både politisk, økonomisk og kulturelt forankret, og er en viktig medspiller i det europeiske og internasjonale samarbeid. Det nordiske fellesskap arbeider for et sterkt Norden i et sterkt Europa.Det nordiske samarbeid ønsker å styrke nordiske og regionale interesser og verdier i en global omverden. Felles verdier landene imellom er med til å styrke Nordens posisjon som en av verdens mest innovative og konkurransekraftige regioner.

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“…Historically, from the spear to the computer, from the plough to the rocket, technology has become part of the social construction of manhood. Artistic and media representations of men have traditionally reinforced this conception by associating men with weapons, gadgets, vehicles, communication and technological devices (Craig, 1992). It is interesting, therefore, to note how our male interviewees so easily conform to this facet of their manhood, and how natural it seems for them to describe their mobile phone as a body organ, an extension of their self.…”

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Tell Me About Your Mobile and I’ll Tell You Who You Are: Israelis Talk About Themselves

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Cohen

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Men, Masculinity, and the Media

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Gender aspects of media tabloidization process in Estonia

Gender aspects of media tabloidization process in Estonia

Unge, køn og pornografi i Norden

Tell Me About Your Mobile and I’ll Tell You Who You Are: Israelis Talk About Themselves

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