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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Women in the media"”.
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Social representation of violence against women in the media: a South African study
The South African mass media has been recognised as playing an important role in influencing individual understandings of social issues, including domestic violence against women. However, few research studies have exclusively investigated the way in which messages concerning domestic violence …
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Fighting An Uphill Battle: Black Undergraduate Women Navigating Higher Education While Acknowledging and Challenging Media Portrayals of Black Women
<p>The stereotypes present in popular television shows often become barriers that limit Black women in higher education, influencing the ways in which they experience college campuses, including how they are treated by faculty and peers and how they interact with others in these spaces. This study …
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Aging Ragefully: A Look at Aging Women in Four Contemporary American Dramas
<p>Despite the growing feminist discourse in America, ageism continues to be a problem, partially due to stereotypical representations of aging women in the media and in literature. This thesis examines the portrayals of aging women in four American dramas: Zona Gale’s Miss Lulu Bett, Edward …
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The Depiction of Expert Women in Canadian Newspapers
This study focuses on gender inequality in representations of “expert” women in the media. Existing scholarly literature has demonstrated that, in general, women are underrepresented or portrayed as objects or victims in the media. Very little of this literature has examined depictions of “expert” …
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Un/doing gender stereotypes in digital technology journalism
This creative media project and essay explore how the editorial brief impacts the creation of gender stereotyped digital technology entrepreneurs in digital technology journalism in South Africa. A second objective is to explore how journalists can create alternative, nongender stereotyped stories …
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The Short-Term Effects of Viewing Sexually Objectifying Media: A Test of Objectification Theory
<p>Although the sexual objectification of women in the media is widespread, there are limited experimental studies that have examined the short-term effects of exposure to sexually objectifying television (e.g., reality shows like Jersey Shore) through the lens of Objectification Theory. …
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An investigation into the media's genderisation of Democrat candidates during the selection process for the 2020 presidential nomination.
This research examines, through critical discourse analysis (Fairclough 2010), the way US media portrayed gender during the TV debates for the Democratic Party nomination for the 2020 US presidential election. Media coverage from debates from November 2019 to March 2020 was investigated to identify …
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Muslim women in Australia and the Netherlands: A multimodal enquiry into television documentary representations
Almost two decades after the terrorist attacks of 11 September, the Western media continues to portray Islam and its people negatively and within the dominant knowledge and ideology of the superior West. These media representations remain largely unquestioned. Hereby the appearances of veiled …
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Tattooed feminine bodies: regulation, conformity, and resistance
Normative constructions of femininity in the UK are constructed around white, middle-class, and thin ideals for women (Francombe-Webb & Silk, 2016), serving to ‘other’ different productions of femininity. Tattooed women have historically been associated with working-class bodies. Class-based …
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Do Black men really love Black women? : A qualitative study on how mass media shape Black men's perception of Black women for long-term romantic relationship -- or not
When confronted with the presence of a Black man in relationship with a non-Black woman whether in media messages or real life, more often than not Black women are also met with feelings of rejection and inadequacy. It is a form of rejection experienced by Black women that is often discussed behind …