Women, power and the media: Assessing the bias

Jaworska, Sylvia; Larrivée, Pierre

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2011.02.008

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“…There is some evidence to suggest that the Western public and media are becoming more aware of gendered representations and some parity has been achieved in media representations over the last few decades (e.g. Jaworska and Larrivée, 2011). However, there is no doubt that sexist biases prevail (Baker, 2014).…”

Section: The Representations Of Hostsmentioning

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A comparative corpus-assisted discourse study of the representations of hosts in promotional tourism discourse

Jaworska¹

2016

Corpora

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Most research concerned with the representations of hosts in tourism discourse points to the prevalence of stereotypical images of local people asserting that contemporary tourism perpetuates colonial legacy and gendered discursive practices. This claim has been contested, to some extent, in studies that explore representations of hosts in local tourism materials, pointing out that tourism can also resist discursively dominant Western imagery. While this research provides evidence for the existence of hegemonic and diverging discourses about the local ‘Other’, its empirical basis is rather small and often limited to one context. In this study, I address this shortcoming by examining representations of hosts in a larger corpus of promotional tourism materials, including texts produced by Western and local tourism industries. The data is investigated using the methodology of Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS). By comparing external with internal (self-)representations, this study verifies and refines some of the claims on the subject and offers a much more nuanced picture of representations that defies the black-and-white scenarios proposed in previous research.

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A comparative corpus-assisted discourse study of the representations of hosts in promotional tourism discourse

Jaworska¹

2016

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“…Unequal power relations, genderbased discrimination in allocation of beats/desks, poor working conditions, harassment are a few challenges women journalists face at the workplace and in the field. Women journalists often negotiated various personal, professional, and socio structurally challenges, usually less discussed (Jaworska & Larrivée, 2011). Hence, it is necessary to identify the factors that affect women performing their duties.…”

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Examining Journalism as a Career for Women in Pakistan from the Challenges and Role Perspectives

Pasha

Saleem

2021

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Distinct Society individuals based on gender. This stratification leads to unequal power relations within society, particularly in media organizations. With the technological changes, gender expectations and women's participation in society is transformed. In Pakistan, gender roles and expectations are still ingrained in the patriarchal life. In this context, we investigated women's status in Pakistani media by exploring their position in the newsroom, their career advancement, and the role that harassment and discrimination play in professional attainment. The primary objective of this study involves exploring women in journalism from different perspectives. We used a cross-sectional design accompanied by Structural Equation Modelling to investigate the relevant phenomenon. We selected a sample of n= 224 female journalists using the stratified sampling method and executed close-ended surveys for the data gathering purposes. Findings indicated that women's experiences in the newsroom echo the struggle for survival as they're confined to soft beats with no recruitment policy specified for their induction. However, to cope with the persistent challenges, women journalists have also adopted masculine traits and routines to fit within the journalistic culture.Therefore, we conclude that journalists career in the media and be competent enough to make media organizations if opportunities are given.

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Text trajectories and media discourse

Romaniuk

2014

Gender and Language

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During the Democratic nomination for President of the United States (2007-2008), Hillary Rodham Clinton’s laughter became the subject of intense scrutiny by mass media and was dubbed, The Clinton Cackle. This paper investigates how the ‘cackle’ characterization was first established, and thus, formed the basis of an intertextual series (Hodges, 2011), wherein this re-presentation of Clinton’s laughter circulated across multiple discursive contexts. By examining various dimensions of the decontextualization and recontextualization of Clinton’s laughter as it ‘travelled’ across contexts (Blommaert, 2005), the analysis illustrates how the news media effectively reshaped the kinds of meanings and values attached to it and concomitantly (re)produced and reinforced a stereotypically gendered, negative (i.e., sexist, misogynist) perception of her. The paper concludes with a discussion of the significance of tracing the trajectory of this ‘text’ in terms of the ideological nature of the intertextual processes at work, and the implications for women politicians more generally.

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Women, power and the media: Assessing the bias

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

A comparative corpus-assisted discourse study of the representations of hosts in promotional tourism discourse

A comparative corpus-assisted discourse study of the representations of hosts in promotional tourism discourse

Examining Journalism as a Career for Women in Pakistan from the Challenges and Role Perspectives

Text trajectories and media discourse

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