ARTICLE: Migration news underrepresent women
Migrant women are much less visible than migrant men in German news on migration. Fabienne Lind, of University of Vienna, and Christine E. Meltzer, of University of Mainz, discovered the … Continued
Tag: representation
ARTICLE: When a company is in a crisis, journalists’ attention shifts away from the CEO
A company’s chief executive officer (CEO) is usually its most visible public representative. However, in a time of crisis, journalists’ attention moves towards the company’s board members, Johannes Gutenberg University … Continued
ARTICLE: Donald Trump’s rise to power changed how news talk about ‘the border’
News discourse on the American-Mexican border region of Rio Grande Valley changed noticeably over 2015 – 2017. K. Jill Fleuriet, of the University of Texas at San Antonio, and Mari … Continued
ARTICLE: Newsrooms still don’t use Twitter’s potential to the fullest
How did different television networks use Twitter in covering the 2016 Orlando mass shooting? Lourdes Cárdenas, of San Francisco State University, with Celeste González de Bustamante and Jessica Retis, both … Continued
ARTICLE: Newspapers chasing quick profits are most negative on terrorism
Newspapers’ profit orientation influences how negative their news on terrorism are, Aaron M. Hoffman, of Simon Fraser University Canada, and Dwaine H. A. Jengelley, of Purdue University, write. They analysed … Continued
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 … Continued
ARTICLE: Swedish newspapers depict single mothers as reluctant heroes
How are single mothers represented in Sweden’s leading newspapers? Disa Bergnehr, of University of Borås, and Helena Wahlström Henriksson, of Uppsala University, tackled the question through content analysis. They investigated … Continued
ARTICLE: How does China Daily represent Chinese Muslims?
The state-aligned newspaper China Daily covers Chinese Muslims in a paternalistic manner, Meng Ye, of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Peter Thomas, of University of Leicester, write. They studied the … Continued
ARTICLE: What news do Islamists consume?
Radicalized Islamists consume regular, mainstream news media – but almost always filtered by Islamist propagandists. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich researchers Philip Baugut and Katharina Neumann interviewed 34 Islamists serving … Continued
ARTICLE: Western Afro-pessimism seeps into African media
African news on Africa are largely negative and thus follow Western notions of the continent, Michael Yao Wodui Serwornoo, of University of Cape Coast, writes. He analysed over 13 000 … Continued