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Pocuc, Vladimir. "Representation of women in media." Vojno delo 67, no. 2 (2015): 279–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/vojdelo1502279p.
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Praptiningsih, Novi Andayani. "REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN MEDIA SITES ONLINE." Jurnal PIPSI (Jurnal Pendidikan IPS Indonesia) 2, no. 1 (November 2, 2017): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.26737/jpipsi.v2i1.295.
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<p>Dream.co.id site content articles and images predominantly women, where there are 429 articles in the category of housewives and career. The site is the site of the Muslim lifestyle who ranks 10th in Indonesia. Recorded census at the end of 2016 as much as 49.83%, or about 118.3 million people is the female population. The Central Bureau of Statistics recorded at 60.67% of Indonesian women married, had a position as a housewife and also work. These facts explain that women have multiple roles. The research objective was to determine the representation of women in the Online site. The method used is the analysis of the contents of the article content Dream.co.id by framing the article connecting concept and as a mark of meaning production. There are three theories that explain the representation. First, gender representation and gender is shaped by culture. Gender representation in media produces negative stereotypes of women, where women are always positioned in the domestic sphere. Second, representation and realism that is the real picture that is displayed media. Content received an audience is a form of real world. Third, changes in the representation of where the text that appears to have an important meaning message (Branston & Stafford, 2003). The findings show that 67% of women described as having two roles. Women have a function take on the role of tradition and role transitions. Women have a great responsibility in the domestic sphere and the public. A role can be an option for women themselves, but also as the demands on women. Both of these roles as a breakthrough of postfeminis, but is still undergoing structural traditionalists. On the site's content was found to be 71.7% of women get the stereotypical 'housewife'. The 28 articles category housewives and career are 57.1% on a female stereotypes about the 'housewives' negative tone in the media portal Dream.co.id, such as : housewives make a loss because it does not work and the purchase of foreign products, father was a non-commissioned officer who just married housewife, housewife better than career, women should be more at home and be a housewife, a wife/mother perform all household tasks such as cooking, washing, embroidery, childcare, care of the home, children, husband, being a housewife into the nature of monthly expenditure, women as domestic servants work caring for children, can work under pressure, a little rest, good at cooking, washing, can take care of their own health, and finally women should be housewives.</p>Conclusion is different roles and weights, two different terms. Private role is to take care of the family. While household problem is not a requirement for women. Sincerity women who want to perform household duties while caring for children and a husband. The system of values, norms, stereotypes and gender ideology has long been seen as one of the factors that influence women's position and relationship with men, or with the environment in the construction of society. The role of women in the public sphere of the economy is getting the salary from his own sweat where the money is not an obligation to use on families. Women who want to help and share their income to domesticate the supposed obligation of men referred to as alms. Alms in financial terms given willingly by the woman/wife to the household as a form of glory and grace of a woman. Each role taken by women has a positive function for themselves, society and beliefs.
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Syahputra, Iswandi. "Konstruksi Perempuan Dalam Televisi (Pendekatan Ekonomi-Politik)." Musãwa Jurnal Studi Gender dan Islam 4, no. 1 (April 30, 2006): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/musawa.2006.41.61-80.
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In several television programs, women are constructed as representation of reality, not as reflection of reality. Those representations trend to exploit woman sexually. This article describes how women has been constructed in television using political economic media approach. Political economic media studies reveal several economic and political interests behind television programs which involved women.
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Yu, Sherry S. "Women in ethnic news media." Journalism 18, no. 4 (July 9, 2016): 425–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884915614242.
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The representation of women in so-called mainstream media has been well studied; however, less is known about this representation in ethnic media, especially in North America where the ethnic media sector is constantly growing. Ethnic media’s unique news sourcing strategy – that is, a mix of news locally produced by local staff writers, news outsourced from local mainstream media, and news internationally imported from the country of origin – suggests that the underrepresentation of women in mainstream media can spill over to and be reproduced in ethnic media. A content analysis of Korean news media in Vancouver and Los Angeles finds an interesting interplay between the transnational effect and the local effect. That is, while a pervasive influence of mainstream media from the country of origin is evident (transnational effect), strong female leadership in the local community and the active roles of these leaders as news sources and actors contribute positively to overall representation of women (local effect).
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Macdonald, Catherine. "Media representation and gender bias in science." Journal of Environmental Media 2, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 7–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jem_00036_1.
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Research on gender bias in science has often focused on the effects of gender stereotypes or a lack of female role models on the recruitment and retention of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, or on the discrimination women scientists face. Systemic bias fuels, and is cyclically reinforced by, media representations of scientists (who are most often presented as white men). While many proposed interventions to address gender inequality in science focus on changing women’s beliefs or behaviour to help them succeed, more inclusive representation of scientists could meaningfully contribute to reshaping the cultural beliefs that act on both genders to deny women opportunities and produce inhospitable learning and working environments.
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Hsu, Jeanette. "Media Matters: Representation of Girls and Women in New Media." Psychology of Women Quarterly 31, no. 3 (September 2007): 328–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.2007.00375_7.x.
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Satiti, Nur Latifah Umi. "Representation of Muslim Women in the Western Media." Jurnal ILMU KOMUNIKASI 14, no. 2 (December 6, 2017): 189–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.24002/jik.v14i2.789.
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This essay attempts to argue about the representation of Muslim women in veil in Western media. This topic is chosen because of general discourse about Muslim women, who wear veil as a threat to secular tradition and value of freedom. Besides, media has power to create affirmation about the general discourse. This paper analyses some researches about Muslim women in media. Based on previous research, it can be assumed that media has power to create women representation as otherness and placed them as threat towards secular tradition and value of freedom.
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Oumlil, Kenza. "Alternative media, self-representation and Arab-American women." Journal of Alternative & Community Media 1, no. 1 (April 1, 2016): 41–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/joacm_00017_1.
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Arab-American women often find themselves represented in the mainstream media as oppressed victims in need of saving, but what sometimes gets less attention are the ways in which Arab-American women themselves are adding to the media landscape, through poetry, film and other forms. This article offers a textual analysis of artistic interventions circulated by Arab-American women in the media sphere, and supplements the analysis of the content and context of these interventions with individual interviews with the artists involved. It focuses on the poetry of Suheir Hammad and the cinematic interventions of Annemarie Jacir, which I situate as alternative media. I conceptualise alternative media as media content that challenges dominant assumptions and offers stylistic innovations for the purpose of inspiring social change. In addition, I argue that alternative media consist of transforming the existing stock of material into ones own language in order to promote social justice. The article concludes with remarks regarding the opportunities and the limitations of alternative media in effecting social transformation.
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Khan, Azka, and Sarwet Rasul. "Representation Of Muslim Women In E-Media Caricatures." Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies 13, no. 1 (September 8, 2016): 101–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/pjgs.v13i1.185.
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This paper attempts to gain an understanding of the ways in which Muslim women are presented on the E-media in the broader world community by identifying and examining the linguistic and visual signifiers used in the caricatures. The sample selected for the current research work consists of 22 caricatures disseminated on the World Wide Web between years 2012 - 2013. From a theoretical perspective, the socio-cognitive approach to CDA introduced by Van Dijk (1992, 1993, 2000, 2012) on communication of ethnic biases and racial prejudices is combined with the visual semiotic model by Roland Barth (1978). The two approaches are merged to examine linguistic and visual aspects of caricatures for identifying signs which construct certain identities of Muslim women. This paper argues that in the collected caricatures the identity of Muslim women is constructed as distant and different from the (Western) social norm. The iconic images or visual identifiers used, function to transfer all the biased imagery and prejudice about Muslim women to the actual situation. Thus they serve the purpose to authenticate the stereotypical identity. This paper claims that the social caricatures collected, depict racial and ethnic prejudices against Muslim women.
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Mim, Moriom Begum, and Maliha Tabassum. "A critical study on female roles in television commercials of Bangladesh." Informasi 51, no. 2 (January 3, 2022): 249–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.21831/informasi.v51i2.42903.
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Media representation of female gender roles in advertising are relentlessly contested themes in a traditional society. Stereotypical representation not only limits the socially accepted traditional roles of gender, but also has an impact on how people perceive women. This study has focused on how women characters are constructed in order to understand reflection of stereotypical gender norms in Bangladeshi television commercials. Stuart Hall’s representation theory has adapted as the framework for conceptualizing the context of this study and scrutinizing the data. Using qualitative and quantitative methods, this paper has explored how such representations constitute unequal gender identities, traditional norms and perpetuate subtle forms of colorism towards women. This study found that dominant patriarchal ideology is deeply embedded in television commercials of Bangladesh; there is a discrimination towards the construction of women's image. Moreover, such media representations generate the ideology of beauty in a negative way and push the concept of colorism towards women.
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Wilde, Alison. "The representation of disabled women and recent disabled women-led media." Disability & Society 37, no. 3 (February 4, 2022): 522–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2021.2015292.
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Cickaric, Lilijana. "Women in political arena: Insiders or outsiders?" Sociologija 51, no. 4 (2009): 423–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/soc0904423c.
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This article focuses on two questions. Why are women underrepresented in democratic institutions and what are the barriers for their larger inclusion in political arena? Problems are analyzed from global perspective. Structural, cultural and political barriers are elaborated. The gender sensitive concept of representative democracy demonstrates legitimacy and difference in political processes. The hegemonic form of masculinity in all state institutions and procedures, in the election system, political culture and media, influences the exclusion of women on all levels of representation. Different theoretical concepts about gender representation in politics are analyzed. The author stresses greater influence of political factors - political culture, type of electoral system, party competitiveness, ideological differences, number of candidates, party and district magnitude, quota system - on women's representation in parliaments. The state of the art in representative bodies and in decision-making processes on the global level are analyzed in the third section of the article.
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Glennie, Cassidy. "“We don’t kiss like that”: Inuit women respond to music video representations." AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 14, no. 2 (March 20, 2018): 104–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1177180118765474.
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This study provides sociological insight into the response of Inuit women to mainstream Western media representations of their culture. Historically, there have been inaccurate and stereotypical media representations of Indigenous peoples reproduced in many forms of entertainment media. Social theories such as Pierre Bourdieu’s symbolic violence, Johan Galtung’s cultural violence, and George Gerbner and Gaye Tuchman’s symbolic annihilation are applied to contemporary media representations of Inuit women. This study explains how Inuit women make sense of popular music videos that utilize Inuit themes. Local Indigenous organizations in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, were collaborated with to facilitate focus groups for Inuit women to express their reactions to the videos and discuss how their culture is presented in mainstream Western music videos. Key themes that were identified include the following: unrealistic Western beauty standards projected onto Indigenous women; the normalization of harmful media tropes including the silence regarding Inuit women’s victimization, and the issue of missing and murdered aboriginal women; and the importance of positive role models, and self-representation of Inuit women in media.
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Arslan, Berna, Erhan ARSLAN, and Taner SEZER. "The Visibility Of Masculine And Feminine Languages In Columns." European Journal of Language and Literature 9, no. 1 (June 10, 2017): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejls.v9i1.p25-35.
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With the beginning of the feminist movement, gender studies developed over the "woman phenomenon” and focused only on woman researches for many years. Gender and media relations investigated in the main axis of “women's representation in the media”. The "representation of women in media texts" tried to problematized in the perspective of content analysis, discourse analysis and semiology and over these representation forms, "the image of women in patriarchal society" tried to be revealed. In recent years, as the stereotyped roles attached to man and woman underwent a change, the concept of gender has begun to be examined in different dimensions. Researches about media professionals show the existence of a male dominated media structure is still out there. As of March 2014, according to bianet.org and based on mastheads, women journalists were represented by 19% whereas men 81% in Turkish newspapers. Therefore, the news language still regenerates sexist representations as it carries masculine characteristics. The columns, that the agenda is interpreted from different angles and presented to the readers, are accepted as an important and effective content of the newspapers. Columnists examine the agenda, propose solutions to problems and present their ideas in a specific narrative and linguistic style of their own. This study studies how male and female stereotypes attributed to man and woman in social life are represented by columnists. A specialized corpus, named “TS Column Corpus” was build by 9982 columns harvested from online versions of Turkish Internet Newspapers between 2014 and 2015. The data studied over the frequency of word choices by male and female columnists and analyzed by using corpus linguistics, content and discourse analysis methods, to figure out the reflections of masculine and feminine features in the texts.
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Kristina, Diah, and Melsiana Shera Rita Ramadona. "The Representation of Women’s CEO Image in Online Media." Lingua Cultura 13, no. 3 (September 24, 2019): 201. http://dx.doi.org/10.21512/lc.v13i3.5785.
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The research focused on the representation of women in the news about the absence of women in Uber’s CEO candidates from the perspective of feminist stylistics by Sara Mills. Five news texts from five different websites published during August 2017 were analyzed; they were Washington Post, Daily Mail, Inverse, Gizmodo, and Fortune. The method used was a qualitative research method with the approach of critical discourse analysis of Sara Mills. By applying three levels of analysis which was analysis at the level of the word, phrase/sentence, and discourse, this research aimed to analyze how women were represented linguistically in the online news of Uber’s CEO candidates and to discover the reason why women were represented in the way they were. The findings reveal that women remain underrepresented in news media. It is proved by the dominance of women as the object in the stories. Moreover, women are represented as ‘glass cliff position’, minority, and a way to recreate the good image in the company. The gender stereotypes, the background story of Uber, the male-dominated industries, and the prevalent condition become the reasons why women represented that way.
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Alston, Margaret. "Goals for women: Improving media representation of women’s sport." Rural Society 6, no. 3 (January 1996): 35–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10371656.1996.11005178.
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Valencia-Forrester, Faith, Bridget Backhaus, and Heather Stewart. "In her own words: Melanesian women in media." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 26, no. 1 (July 31, 2020): 63–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v26i1.1104.
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Representation of women in media has been a noted gender equity issue globally for decades. Given the increasing encroachments into press freedom in Melanesia, female journalists and media workers face serious challenges. With this in mind, the Melanesian Media Freedom Forum (MMFF) hosted a special session focusing specifically on the issues affecting women in the media in Melanesia. This article focuses on the discussions of female Melanesian journalists and the unique challenges they face in terms of representation in the media workforce, having their voices heard in the media, and the threats to their personal safety.
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Batool, Sumera, and Sadia Majeed. "Challenges And Pressures Of Mediated Images: Exploring Representation Of Postmodern Women In The Leading Magazines Of Pakistan And Understanding The Discourses Of Working Women." Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies 19, no. 1 (September 8, 2019): 217–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/pjgs.v19i1.84.
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The study deals with the media representation of women in the post-modern era and the pressures they face by such mediated images. The study has explored the nature of identities being represented for women in magazines and has also discussed the challenges and pressures that are being faced by women in building and maintaining their own social identities. The critical issue of the feminist research has rectified the appropriateness between the constructed images of a woman, and the challenges and pressure of a working woman she faces in real. Both qualitative and quantitative aspects of media representation of women have been observed through content analysis. Thechallenges and pressures of women have been interpreted by interviewing working women. The thematic analysis of data has shown a visible difference in the mediated images of an empowered woman, and the real discourses of a working woman.
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Cukier, Wendy, Samantha Jackson, Mohamed A. Elmi, Erin Roach, and Darren Cyr. "Representing women? Leadership roles and women in Canadian broadcast news." Gender in Management: An International Journal 31, no. 5/6 (July 4, 2016): 374–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/gm-04-2015-0035.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the representation of women in Canadian broadcast news coverage, exploring the notion of substantive representation as it relates to gender, leadership and framing. Design/methodology/approach Using computer-aided text analysis software, the authors analyzed the frequency of women appearing in on-air roles, the way in which they are framed, as well as technical and expressive details, such as how they are featured. In total, the authors analyzed representation of 2,031 individuals in the four suppertime local news broadcasts from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Framed in an ecological model of complex social change, this paper focuses on understanding how women are presented in Canadian broadcast media. Findings This study finds that women are under-represented in Canadian broadcast media. Furthermore, it finds that women are less likely to be framed as leaders or experts and are less likely to hold news host or anchor positions. For all major news broadcasters analyzed, women are less likely to be portrayed positively or in leadership/expert positions and are more often represented as victims. They are less likely to appear on screen and are more likely to be referred to off-screen, paraphrased and cited rather than speaking for themselves. Research limitations/implications By framing this study in an (critical) ecological, this study moved beyond required descriptive benchmarking to examine the degree of substantive representation of women. However, the sample of the study is only a snapshot of Canada’s largest city, and, therefore, more research involving further a comparative analysis of cities, a variety of print sources and online media outlets is needed. Future research might include more qualitative analysis of the representation, the type of representation and the factors affecting levels of representation. For example, such research might explore the practices in broadcast organizations, the way in which stories are framed and how guests selected. Also of interest is the relationship between women’s representation at the decision-making table, as an input, and the representation of women in on-air roles, as an outcome. Practical implications The implications of this article are important for understanding the complex factors affecting female leadership across sectors, particularly, the Canadian broadcast industry, the barriers they face and the strategies that may lead to their advancement. Originality/value This study moved beyond descriptive benchmarking to examine the degree of substantive representation of women by coding the frames, roles and means of quotation experienced by women on broadcast news.
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Zanco, Amanda. "Women Without a Nation." Stream: Interdisciplinary Journal of Communication 13, no. 1 (November 5, 2021): 85–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.21810/strm.v13i1.295.
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Photography has the ability to provoke ethical reflection and to provide an emotional connection to the reality of individual suffering (Hariman & Lucaites, 2016). Therefore, given the remarkable importance of visual communication in covering humanitarian crises, this short paper aims to problematize humanitarian photography practice and reflect on alternative ways of framing representations of refugee women’s life experiences outside mainstream media. Thus, I propose here an initial conversation regarding my doctoral research that focuses on self-representation of refugee women. I aim to investigate how self-representation can challenge the way to document refugee women’s life experiences by constructing through visual narration their identities and exiled memories. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to deromanticize the humanitarian discourse by reflecting on the photographer’s role in the field and by exploring alternative photography practices that frame nations affected by crises. The word crisis governs my work not only because refugee women are victims of a global refugee crisis resulting from armed conflict, natural disasters, and diseases, but also because of the daily subjective crises that these women face in lands that they now call home. Through self-representation, they can construct their stories beyond the problematic of conflicts. Thus, by reflecting on the activist potential of self-representation in framing of refugee memories it is possible to think of new opportunities to make their struggles visible in times of crisis.
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Fata, Ika Apriani. "Veil or Evil? Spotlighting Women Portrayal through Semiotics Analysis." Register Journal 11, no. 1 (June 21, 2018): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.18326/rgt.v11i1.19-36.
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The phenomenon of woman and man portrayal have been merely discussed world wide. Many viewpoints such as: media, politics, health, cultural studies, gender concerned on this topic. However, only a few of them was trying to seek out the language features attributed for women representation. Accordingly, to fill in this gap, this research aims at describing semiotical sign analysis of woman portrayal in media. A number of four corpus of Serambi Indonesia were analyzed based on two signification semiotics interpretations by Barthes (1967). The result eventually revealed that the language features attributed for women in the newspaper are woman as animal, as properties, as trigger of sins, as peaceful guard, those are considered as terms of denotative signification meaning. Meanwhile, the connotative meaning divided into two understandings; veil and evil, introducing positive and negative representation towards women. Finally it is expected that for further studies involve systemic functional linguistics or corpus linguistics towards other discourses as media to further develop the conclusions drawn from this present study.Keywords: Woman; Aceh; Semiotics; Portrayal
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Yang, Elaine Chiao Ling, Michelle Hayes, Jinyan Chen, Caroline Riot, and Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore. "A Social Media Analysis of the Gendered Representations of Female and Male Athletes During the 2018 Commonwealth Games." International Journal of Sport Communication 13, no. 4 (December 1, 2020): 670–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ijsc.2020-0045.
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Contemporary sport culture is characterized as highly masculinized, where female athletes are continually marginalized in traditional media. Despite evidence suggesting that media representation of athletes has a meaningful impact on social outcomes and participation rates of women and girls, little is known about gendered representations of athletes on social media and in the context of mega-sporting events. This paper examines the gendered representations of athletes on Twitter during the 2018 Commonwealth Games using framing theory. A total of 133,338 tweets were analyzed using sentiment and word-frequency analyses. Results indicate gender differences concerning athlete representation on Twitter, albeit marginal. In particular, the findings reveal that seemingly neutral words (e.g., “dedicated,” “talented,” and “hard working”) could carry gendered connotations. Recommendations are provided to guide stakeholders to advance a more inclusive sport culture through the strategic use of social media during mega-sporting events.
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Bonilla Neira, Laura Cristina, Karen Paola Ramírez-Duarte, Erika Tatiana Galvis-Martínez, and Jesús Redondo-Pacheco. "Women Representation during the Peace Process in the Colombian Media." International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Communication 11, no. 4 (2016): 13–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2324-7320/cgp/v11i04/13-25.
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Adnan, Sharif. "REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN MEDIA AND CITIZENS PERCEPTION: BANGLADESH PERSPECTIVE." Euroasia Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 7, no. 15 (January 1, 2020): 13–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.38064/eurssh.88.
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Maguire, Tom. "The State We’re in: Violence and Working-Class Women on and off the Contemporary Irish Stage." Journal of Contemporary Drama in English 6, no. 1 (April 27, 2018): 160–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jcde-2018-0018.
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AbstractThis essay examines the ways in which women in the lowest socio-economic class are represented on the contemporary Irish stage. Its central concern is with the ways in which the Naturalistic dramatic representation of the home as a domestic sphere for poor women may confound nationalist discourses of the country as home, yet may fail to resist the systemic violence of the state against its most precarious citizens. To do so I set the actual economic conditions of these precarious women alongside social attitudes to poverty and the poor to demonstrate the systemic violence enacted on the most vulnerable. Turning then to dominant media representations, the essay questions the interaction between representation and reality more generally, whereby Ireland’s poorest are demonised and disenfranchised as figures of fun or fear in forms of representational violence. Against this broader backdrop, the paper identifies recurrent forms of and tropes in stage representations to raise questions about both the form and function of theatre for contemporary spectators, focusing on two contemporary plays Waiting on Ikea and Pineapple. For some, this promotes pleasures of recognition; for others the frisson of class voyeurism. The central argument is that little has changed since O'Casey put Juno Boyle and Bessie Burgess onstage – in either the precarious lives led by poor women, their representation on stage or the failures of the audiences or the state to accept responsibility for the unequal lives of Irish citizens.
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Ibbi, Andrew Ali. "Stereotype Representation of Women in Nigerian Films." CINEJ Cinema Journal 6, no. 2 (April 25, 2018): 49–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/cinej.2017.166.
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The stereotype representation of women in Nollywood films has attracted criticisms from the society with feminists clamoring for a review of the way women are projected. This study looks at the various issues associated with stereotype representation as a concept in film. The Feminist Media Theory was used as supporting theory for the paper. Part of the recommendations for the paper is the need for research to be properly conducted on the society before screenplays are written, to avoid misleading the public.
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Shor, Eran, and Alex Miltsov. "The price of greater representation: A cross-national analysis of parliamentary representation and media coverage sentiment for women." Newspaper Research Journal 41, no. 4 (November 4, 2020): 455–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0739532920968219.
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Previous research suggested that news media coverage tone tends to become more negative for successful women in politics (but not for successful men) when compared with less successful and well-known women. This study tests this in 17 countries. Specifically, it examines relationships between greater parliamentary representation of women and the coverage tone in articles on women in that country through a computational analysis of millions of persons’ names in more than 1,000 newspapers. Growth in parliamentary representation of women is associated with more negative coverage, lending support for explanations that suggest reactionary responses to perceived breaching of gendered social hierarchies.
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Kozub, Halyna, and Maria Olkhovyk. "REPRESENTATION OF GENDER RELATIONS IN SPORTS MEDIA." Research Bulletin Series Philological Sciences 1, no. 193 (April 2021): 347–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.36550/2522-4077-2021-1-193-347-355.
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The article is devoted to the problem of modern linguistics - gender relations. The problems of language and gender have become relevant in modern linguistics. Linguists consider gender as a phenomenon of culture and language; study the refraction of this category in language. Scientists consider gender to be a sociocultural category; their works touch upon the issues of oral and written communication. They researched general patterns of gender development, gender relations in linguistics, and concepts in the light of gender stereotypes. But the problem of studying gender relations in sports media in a comparative aspect was not touched upon in the works of linguists. Significant contributions to the construction of gender were made by the mass media. The media shape gender attitudes for both men and women and assign them specific gender roles. Sports text is a multilevel communicative constructor. It reflects the communicative intentions of sports actors - athletes, coaches, competition judges, sports administrators, fans, and sports commentators. The phraseological and lexical fund of the German and Russian languages was used to analyze the research data. After analyzing the material we have chosen, that most of the articles are devoted to men's sports - 76.5% and only 23.5% - to women's. We determined that the morphological way of forming words (suffix and addition) prevails in sports publications. So, we have noted that for designation a person's sex in borrowed words, native speakers of the Russian language resort to the syntactic method, that is, the formulation of the predicate in the desired form. In German language, a predicate cannot be an indicator of gender. We can reveal belonging to one or another gender only through introductory nominations (weiblich, männlich, Frauen-, Männer-) or the names of athletes.Over time, the stereotypes that were created in society are changing, because our life does not stand still, and women are increasingly becoming on a par with men.
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Bullock, Katherine. "Challenging Media Representations of the Veil." American Journal of Islam and Society 17, no. 3 (October 1, 2000): 22–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v17i3.2045.
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The image of the Muslim woman’s veil in the popular western media isthat it is a symbol of oppression and violence in Islam. The forced coveringof women in postrevolutionary Iran, or lately, under the Talibanin Afghanistan seems to confirm this image of the veil. But this singularimage of the ‘veil’ is not the whole story of covering. Since the late1970s scores of Muslim women, from Arabia to Asia to the West, havebeen voluntarily covering. The re-covering movement challenges thereductive image of the veil as a symbol of Muslim women’s oppression.Due to the ubiquitous image of the veil as a symbol of oppression orviolence, Muslim women living in the West who cover often suffer discrimination,harassment, even assault. Hence, it is important to understandthe multiple meanings of the veil, and to challenge the media toimprove their representation of its meanings.
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Bailey, Moya. "Redefining Representation." Screen Bodies 1, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 71–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/screen.2016.010105.
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This article explores Black trans and queer women’s use of digital media platforms to create alternate representations of themselves through a process that addresses health and healing beyond the purview of the biomedical industrial complex. These activities include trans women of color using Twitter to build networks of support and masculine of center people creating their own digital health zine, two projects that value the propagation of crowd-sourced knowledge and the creation of images that subvert dominant representations of their communities. I argue that this process of redefining representation interrupts the normative standards of bodily representation and health presented in popular and medical culture. My research connects the messages within the seemingly objective realm of biomedicine to the social contexts in which they emerge and are shared. By highlighting two examples where I see these connections being made, I shift attention to the images deployed to redefine representations within these liminal communities.
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Gatto, Yasmin Ribeiro, and Murilo César Soares. "PRESS AND GENDER IN THE AMAZON: journalistic representations of woman at the Parintins Folk Festival (AM)." Revista Observatório 6, no. 4 (July 1, 2020): a13en. http://dx.doi.org/10.20873/uft.2447-4266.2020v6n4a13en.
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This research analyses the journalistic representation of the female gender within the main popular manifestation of the Northern Region: Folklore Festival of Parintins. The research is based on the framings built by the news coverage of the region's two main print journals in the years 2015 and 2016. In the Amazon region, the emphasis women receive in the media is almost always related to the issue of cultural manifestations, which leads us to reflect how the media of the region itself see the woman and make a representation of it. Therefore, the research has the following problem question: how are the women participating in the Folk Festival being presented in the media and how does this framing represent the female figure?
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Wijayanti, Lucky. "Art as the Energy of Life Creative Process Representation of Sasak Womanhood in Visual Media." International Journal of Creative and Arts Studies 1, no. 2 (April 17, 2017): 46. http://dx.doi.org/10.24821/ijcas.v1i2.1559.
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The idea of creation/formulation of the problem in the dissertation of art creation is the reality of women workers to the nature of femininity in performing arts as interpreted life energy into the problems of women workers. The idea is then formulated into the concept of creation, the role of women as the guardian of the family, gave birth to progeny, and the resilient nature of women as breadwinners for survival, even more importantly women as keepers of tradition. Through the creative process to create works of art by presenting a ‘rasa’ that can be captured and responded to by the brain into something that essence and recorded in the memory, (VS Ramachandran, 2012). The study was conducted using visual aesthetic and creative through the photographic process with the exploration of materials such as: objects generated tradition of Lombok, for example woven fabrics, woven and the other as an aesthetic element as well as elements of art such as: shape, line, color, shape, composition, and texture. As for all stages of the process based on the embodiment of the work of the working stages of the creative process by Csikszentmihalyi (1996), namely: preparation, incubation, insight / arcing ideas, evaluation, development, and presentation in the form of art exhibitions. In general it can be concluded, that in this aspect of the subject matter of the concept of women in the end that guarantees life for themselves women are women themselves. In the form of work, technical realization through the creative process with visualization methods.
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Mejía, Oscar A., and Kent A. Ono. "Fugitive Rhetorics in Media Representations of Sanctuary." Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 9, no. 1 (2020): 111–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.1.111.
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Representations of undocumented people on television shows such as The Fosters can impact how audiences understand contemporary issues concerning sanctuary and migrants. In this Critical Intervention forum essay, we examine the intricate representation of Ximena, a Latinx woman, and her struggle as an undocumented person who takes up sanctuary in a church to avoid being arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This televisual representation of Ximena highlights the need to incorporate the complexity of undocumented people's experiences into mainstream narratives. As activist scholars, in this brief essay we support, critique, and contextualize representations of undocumented people and sanctuary as part of the work that needs to be done to help challenge dehumanizing representations, laws and policies, and actions.
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Santaemilia, José, and Sergio Maruenda. "The linguistic representation of gender violence in (written) media discourse." Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 2, no. 2 (October 28, 2014): 249–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jlac.2.2.04san.
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‘Woman’ is a key social actor, and a central conceptualization, in the construction of media discourses of gender-based violence. Scholarly research at the turn of the 21st century (Bengoechea 2000; Lledó 2002; Fernández Díaz 2003; Jorge 2004) showed that in the Spanish press, media discourses had a tendency to naturalize male aggression not as violence but as part of the (private) sexual arrangement between the sexes. In this paper we explore the treatment of the phrase mujer maltratada (EN ‘battered woman’) in intimate partner violence newspaper articles from 2005 to 2010. Our aims are: (i) to account for the discursive representation of violence against women (VAW) in Spanish contemporary media discourse in recent years; and (ii) to unveil the expectations about gender, sexuality and power implicit in public discourses about VAW, given their apparent objectivity. In doing so, we draw on the evaluation framework for the analysis of news reports proposed by White (2004, 2006) and on Corpus Linguistics tools.
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Mendonça, Maria Luisa. "Imagens de mulher: representações do envelhecimento feminino nos media brasileiros." Comunicação e Sociedade 21 (June 29, 2012): 67–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.17231/comsoc.21(2012).700.
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This text is part of a more extensive project I am currently working on entitled “Representation of the others: How the Media looks at diversity” which intends to investigate, through analysis of different media productions, contents related to various minority groups (ethnic, gender, age, culture etc.) and their articulation between identity construction and subjectivity. The concern on representation assumes that the discourses about aging reflect on the construction of self image, identity and possible hierarchical social relations. So, in this paper, the focus is on the representation of women aging in Brazilian media, especially on the TV series ‘Cinquentinha’ and its continuation ‘Lara com Z’. How are women portrayed? Analyzing media discourses may reveal a little more about this universe and make evident the necessity of constructing different ways of representation in order to modify and disrupt hierarchies, stereotypes and prejudices.
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Muir, Kathie. "Media representations of Ngarrindjeri women." Journal of Australian Studies 20, no. 48 (January 1996): 73–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443059609387268.
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Tehseem, Tazanfal, Masroor Sibtain, and Zara Obaid. "EXPLORING GENDER STEREOTYPES IN MEDIA ADVERTS: A MULTIMODAL ANALYSIS." Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 57, no. 2 (December 31, 2018): 155–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.46568/jssh.v57i2.42.
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This paper aims at identifying socio-cultural portrayal of women through representational, interactive and compositional meanings with a focus on gender stereotypes propagated by media advertisements in Pakistan. Media adverts as such are an instrumental tool for manipulating attitudes and behavior of large and diverse audience for example, a large body of data reveals that women are portrayed in media to stylize their physical attributes to tempt and persuade customers. Therefore, advertisements are instrumental in creating a certain mind-set by shaping an ideologythrough highlighting the hegemonic representation of men and sexual objectification of women for creating an erotic fantasy. The data for the study comprises print media adverts which were randomly collected to have primarily advertised Pakistan TV morning shows, home products and cosmetics and have been selected on an assumption that they embody a socio-cultural perspective. The findings show that the selected advertsproject the world of male chauvinism where women are shown as the facilitating sexual objects.
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Milivojević, Tatjana, Ljiljana Manić, and Nataša Simeunović Bajić. "Double discrimination of elderly women in the media." Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook 19, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 117–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/nl_00026_1.
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The topic of this article is the phenomenon of double, namely cross or additive discrimination against senior women in the media sphere. Many studies and articles are devoted to ageism, discrimination against the elderly and gender inequality as discrimination against women. Rarely and hardly ever in Serbia, research is focused on the topic of gender differences that determine the quality of life in old age. While some believe that gender inequality and stereotypes end with age, which is in itself a basis for discrimination, and that gender differences are equalized, others believe that gender differences are particularly pronounced in old age, especially when considering marginalized elderly populations such as elderly people belonging to the Roma nationality, people with disabilities, LGBT people and HIV-positive people. This article is a comprehensive literature review article. The authors applied theoretical and interpretative methods of research, discursive and critical thematic analysis. The interpretative method is based on the meanings and representation of different aspects of the issue. The main finding of this article is the existence and prevalence of a gap and contradiction between the reality of longer and better quality of life and outdated media representation of old age, especially of elderly women.
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Kurniawati, Neni. "Representation of Women Power in Beyoncé Knowless’ song “Run The World (Girls)”." E-Structural 4, no. 01 (August 3, 2021): 68–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.33633/es.v4i01.4747.
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Song is one of the propaganda media for ideolgy. Beyonce Knowless's song “Run the World (girls)” is an example of a song that raises the issue of Black Feminism Thought. This paper will discuss how textual and discursive practices through the signs in the text of the song lyrics and video clips of the song in constructing the paradigm of black women power or black feminism thought. By interpreting the structure of the text in the lyrics of the song and the visual signs in the video clip of the song "Run the World (girls)" to find meaning and ideology reproduced in the song. The results show that the dialectic of verbal and visual signs represents black women power and to bolster black women to become well-respected women especially by black men. The presence of this song is also related to the black feminist movement which propagates their ideology through song media. The independence of black women in the economic and educational aspectss, as well as the ability to bare children are discourses that are reproduced by the singer to make social changes in black women’s live.Keywords: Black woman, discourse, hermeneutics, ideology, Paul Ricouer
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Yip, Adrian. "Pinning down the gap: gender and the online representation of professional tennis players." Corpora 16, no. 3 (November 2021): 349–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/cor.2021.0227.
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Sport is a powerful social institution where hegemonic masculinity is constantly constructed and naturalised through the positioning of physicality and athleticism alongside maleness. Female athletes continue to be sub-ordinated by means of under-representation and trivialising gender discourses. So far, the extensive discussion of gendered language in sports media has primarily focussed on identifying the manifestations of gender bias in traditional news media. There has been little endeavour to explore the language of online media and tournament organisers. This study addresses that gap by comparing online gender representations of tennis players during the Wimbledon Championships 2018 on five online news websites and the tournament website. It also contributes to existing literature by providing corpus evidence of gender bias in sports media. The corpus consists of 1,622 articles (1,076,475 tokens). Findings from frequency, collocation and concordance analysis indicate that despite some instances of gender-neutral representations, female players are prone to gender marking and gender-bland sexism on all websites. I argue that the challenges women face relate to the tension between femininity and athleticism, and the misguided belief that women need to but can never eliminate the muscle gap.
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Crusmac, Oana. "The Social Representation of Feminism within the On-line Movement “Women Against Feminism”." Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations 19, no. 1 (April 1, 2017): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.21018/rjcpr.2017.1.228.
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The present paper aims to analyse the social representation of feminism within the “Women Against Feminism” (WAF) on-line movement that is based on a shared blog which gained significant coverage in the U.S. and U.K. media since the summer of 2014. Using the method of quantitative content analysis and the insights provided by social representations theory, the paper will disclose what lies behind the concept of ‘feminism’ for the group embracing the WAF movement and also aims to find whether the members of this on-line community can be described as postfeminists. The article will conclude that the social representation of feminism within the WAF on-line movement is not based on a lack of information, but rather on a stereotypical understanding of the concept and on a non-nuanced perspective upon the history of feminism and its current developments (in particular the difference between post-feminism and third wave feminism). Moreover, similar arguments raised against feminism have been also drawn in the past, WAF sharing similar arguments with the ‘80s media backlash against feminsim.
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García-Muñoz, Núria, and Luisa del Carmen Martínez-García. "The positive representation of the image of women in the media." Comunicar 16, no. 32 (March 1, 2009): 209–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.3916/c32-2009-03-002.
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This article aims to outline the positive assessments made by the public, through the service of the Catalan Women’s Institute (ICD) on speeches containing media representations of gender. It is a way to illustrate how the products of cultural industries are part of the audience’s social imaginary and how it is able to identify and assess constructive representations of gender. The media and audience as agents of social change suggest ways of teaching on gender issues. Finally, the text encourages us to think about the possibility of creating and enhancing educational strategies to form a critical audience that generates proposals, guidelines, a discourse on gender according to social reality.Este trabajo tiene como objetivo describir las valoraciones positivas realizadas por la ciudadanía a través del servicio del Instituto Catalán de las Mujeres (ICD) sobre los discursos mediáticos que contienen representaciones de género. Es una forma de ilustrar cómo los productos de las industrias culturales forman parte del imaginario social de la audiencia y cómo ésta es capaz de identificar, valorar, las representaciones constructivas de género. Los medios de comunicación y la audiencia como agentes sociales de cambio sugieren vías pedagógicas sobre cuestiones de género. Finalmente, el texto nos anima a pensar en la posibilidad de crear y potenciar estrategias educativas para formar una audiencia crítica que genere propuestas, pautas, sobre un discurso de género acorde a la realidad social.
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Yasmin, Musarat, Ayesha Sohail, and Riaz Ahmed Mangrio. "Myths Broken or Sustained: Representation of Women Victims in Pakistani Media." Open Journal of Social Sciences 03, no. 07 (2015): 209–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jss.2015.37033.
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Rashad, Saira, and Musarrat Azher. "“Women In Jokes”: A Linguistic Analysis of Jokes on Pakistani Social Media in Light of the General Theory of Verbal Humour." Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan 25, no. 2 (December 19, 2018): 113–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.46521/pjws.025.02.0049.
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Social relations of power are established and negotiated through discourse and joke telling is one strategy among many to do so. The present study is an attempt to examine the representation of women in jokes, circulated on Pakistani social media, by addressing four themes: representation of women in general, women exercising skills/intellect, women as life partners and representation of teenage girls/young women. The study employs the General Theory of Verbal Humour (GTVH) by Attardo & Raskin (1991) as a theoretical framework. From different social media sources like Facebook and Whatsapp, twenty jokes pertaining to women have been selected randomly and analysed on the basis of the GTVH's six knowledge resources. The study reflects the realization that women are represented as talkative and ignorant beings, devoid of intellect; women as life partners are shown to be domineering and intimidating figures, and the representation of teenage girls/young women reinforces stereotypes circulated by patriarchy discourse. The significance of this work lies in the assumption that systematically analysing jokes about women may help in exposing casual sexism and empower women by provoking them to question instead of internalizing the stereotypes circulated through jokes.
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Kokova, Alla V., and Tatiana Yu Tameryan. "THE REPRESENTATION OF THE FEMININE PRINCIPLES IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT (According to the Media)." RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics 10, no. 1 (December 15, 2019): 121–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-2299-2019-10-1-121-128.
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In the article, on the material of interviews with women entrepreneurs in the Russianlanguage press of the North Caucasus, the selfimage of a business woman is built. In sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives, the self conceptualization of a business woman is carried out through the analysis of feminine principles of management. Based on cognitive, semantic and conceptual approaches cognitive features, ethnic and gender marked values characteristics of the concept and language means of its representation in the female ntrepreneurs Russian-speaking picture of the world in the North Caucasus are established.
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Onay-Çöker, Duygu. "Problematizing Motherhood." Glimpse 22, no. 2 (2021): 166–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/glimpse202122233.
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In this paper, I focus on the representation of motherhood from a two-fold perspective by choosing the bestselling Turkish baby diapers advertisements as a case study of broadcasting in Turkish media. The first perspective analyzes the representation of motherhood by applying the concept of “Male Gaze” by Laura Mulvey, according to whom a woman is objectified by the male gaze and becomes a bearer of meaning rather than a maker of meaning. Further, the themes emerging from a careful reading of representations of women in advertisements of baby diapers are discussed. The second perspective consists of looking at discursive strategies of the term “motherhood” by problematizing the fact that baby diapers are always identified with women, thereby also reducing them to commodities in the market. The second perspective applies Julia Kristeva’s “The Semiotic Chora” to reveal the myths about motherhood created by the ruling ideology of the males, and to seek possible alternatives through that perspective.
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Ljajić, Samir, and Nikola Dojčinović. "PRESENTATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY IN THE SERBIAN PRESS." MEDIA STUDIES AND APPLIED ETHICS 2, no. 1 (October 8, 2020): 89–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.46630/msae.2.2020.06.
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One’s attention is directed to the events, phenomena, personalities and social groups present in the media. How they are perceived depends on media presentation and representation, which implies media representations of events, phenomena, identities, social groups. Through them, the media can shape public opinion, refer to or restrict stereotypical and discriminatory attitudes in society. One of the fundamental conditions for combating discrimination is equal participation of women in the media world, i.e. the equal presence of women and men in the media. The paper investigates the presence of women in the following daily newspapers: Politika, Danas, Blic, and Večernje novosti on International Women’s Day, with special reference to the method of reporting on this holiday. The theoretical part of the paper includes a chapter on the social status of women throughout history, outlining some of the factors for the inferior position of women that contributed to the creation of stereotypes about women. Then, attention is paid to stereotypes about women, dominant patterns of reporting on women in the media, as well as the importance of the holiday and its historical origin. The interpretation of previous research in published scientific papers can also be found in the theoretical part. The second part of the paper includes the quantitative and qualitative research results. Finally, the results are summarized, which leads to the conclusion.
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Tijani-Adenle, Ganiyat. "She’s homely, beautiful and then, hardworking!" Gender in Management: An International Journal 31, no. 5/6 (July 4, 2016): 396–410. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/gm-06-2015-0053.
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Purpose There are assumptions in gender-related media research that increased female status would be accompanied by more and better representation of women. There are also expectations that an increase in the number of women working in the news media will increase the positive representation of women. The aim of this paper is to critique the representation of women leaders and managers in the Nigerian press to assess the extent to which these factors have influenced the representation of women in the West African country. Design/methodology/approach Using two methods, qualitative content analysis and interview, this chapter critiques the representation of women leaders and managers in Nigerian Guardian Life and Vanguard Allure (over a period of six months – the last half of 2014) to determine the way women in leadership and management are constructed by checking for frames on stereotypes, gender roles and trivialisation themes. The editors of the two publications are then interviewed to consider the philosophies behind the coverage patterns and assess their knowledge and awareness of the implications of the coverage patterns on the status of women in the sub-Saharan African country. Findings It was discovered that the Nigerian press are focusing on re-enforcing traditional gender roles and norms rather than challenging them, and women in leadership and management in the country do not apply sufficient agency in challenging the status quo. Research limitations/implications Even though information derived from this study cannot be said to represent the realities in all of Africa, it surely provides a good context within which issues about media representation of women in leadership and management in Africa can be better understood to assess how the cultures on the continent’s various countries affect the realities of the lives of women. Originality/value The bulk of feminist research is situated in the North. Not much feminist research is being done in the South, and there appears to be an inadequate engagement with the available few in the literature. This chapter bridges the gap by presenting much needed information about gender, media and organisation in Nigeria; a highly populous multi-ethnic and multi-cultural sub-Saharan African country. Even though information derived from this study cannot be said to represent the realities in all of Africa, it will surely provide a good context within which issues about media, gender and organisation in Africa can be better appreciated.
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Opyd, Dorota. "Men and Media: Friends or Enemy of Women Parliamentarians? Under-Representation of Women in Politics." ATHENS JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES 1, no. 1 (January 31, 2013): 35–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.30958/ajss.1-1-3.
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Mitchell, Madeline, and Merryn McKinnon. "‘Human’ or ‘objective’ faces of science? Gender stereotypes and the representation of scientists in the media." Public Understanding of Science 28, no. 2 (September 24, 2018): 177–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662518801257.
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This article examines contemporary representations of female and male scientists in The New York Times with a particular emphasis on stereotypes related to gender and science as a profession. The selected series of profiles is approximately proportional in its representation of women in science and generally gives a rounded and diverse picture of their subjects. Traditionally ‘masculine’ characteristics (e.g. individual drive and brilliance) as well as ‘feminine’ communal skills (e.g. collaboration, communication and teamwork) are attributed to both male and female scientists. Nevertheless, textual and image analyses reveal that some differences remain in the treatment of male and female subjects, particularly in the unequal focus on combining family and career. This research identifies progress in media representations of scientists in comparison to previous studies. However, there is still room for improvement, especially in the representation of scientists from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.