gender – Journalism research news

Under what conditions does a gender byline bias against female authors still exist? A new article “Are byline biases an issue of the past” by Leyla Dogruel from Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Sven Joeckel from University of Erfurt, and Claudia Wilhelm from University of Vienna was a combination of two consequtive studies investigating the effect of perceived author … Continued

Tags: audience, bylines, credibility, gender, Germany, journalistic profession
Published: 27 May 2021

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Ghanaian female journalists’ work-life balance

New article “Multiskilled in Many Ways: Ghanaian Female Journalists Between Job and Home” by Kodwo Jonas Anson Boateng of University of Jyväskylä and Epp Lauk Vytautas Magnus University Kaunas investigates the challenges Ghanaian female journalists face when combining their work and family life, with gendered expectations for caregiver role. Unstructured in-depth interviews of 23 female … Continued

Tags: gender, Ghana, journalistic identity, journalistic profession
Published: 7 Jan 2021

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Fewer but gendered and more positive stories about women as heads of government

Few journalism research papers up to this day have focused on women as heads of government. The new paper by Melanee Thomas of University of Calgary, Allison Harell and Tania Gosselin of UQAM, Montreal, and Sanne A.M. Rijkhoff of Texas A&M University Corpus Christi (authors not in original order), studied how gender roles are represented … Continued

Tags: Canada, gender, newspapers, online journalism, political journalism, representation
Published: 5 Nov 2020

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ARTICLE: The first year of reporting #MeToo in Indian English language press focused on celebrity stories

A new research article by Suman Mishra of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, examines the phenomenon of news domestication and shows how hashtag activism originating in one country can have very different resonance in another. Mishra did a textual analysis of 641 news articles from five prominent English language newspapers: The Hindustan Times, The Times of … Continued

Tags: domestication, gender, India, journalistic norms, newspapers, political journalism, representation, United States
Published: 8 Jan 2020

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ARTICLE: Acquiring digital capital is important but gendered

Digital capital, i.e. information and communication technology skills and knowledge, is important in the struggle for power in journalism, increasing journalists’ chances for recruitment and advancement. Sara De Vuyst and Karin Raeymaeckers, of Ghent University, conducted 24 interviews with a cross-national sample to find out whether and how digital capital is gendered in journalism. Digital … Continued

Tags: data journalism, gender, journalistic norms, online journalism
Published: 13 Sep 2017

BOOK: Female patients, ministers, and emotions in news

A new open access e-book on gender and media has been published by the University of Minho’s Communication and Society Research Centre. The book contains 11 chapters, many of which are of interest to journalism scholars. Cláudia Àlvares, of Lusófona University, and Adalberto Fernandes, of University of Lisbon, write about the way Portuguese press depicted … Continued

Tags: gender, political journalism, representation
Published: 4 Apr 2016

BOOK: Changes in media, changes in gender

A recently published Nordicom book Mediers känslä för kön focuses on new possibilities of feminist media research in Swedish. The book points out that media’s sense of gender changes in the times of major media changes. The space between producers and consumers of media is shifting, and this book aims to study these on-going changes. … Continued

Tags: gender, Sweden
Published: 10 Jun 2015