The Status of Women News Journalists in Lebanese Television: A Field-Gender Approach This dissertation examines the status of women in the Lebanese television newsroom using the field theory proposed by Bourdieu, gender theory in relation to journalism studies and the concept of the glass ceiling. Women's newsroom positions, field accomplishments, social and educational capitals, as well as the obstacles they face, are studied alongside the effect of their religious and political affiliation and their strategies of struggle. Utilizing a qualitative research design, individual in-depth interviews were conducted in the fall of 2014. Respondents included 27 newsroom workers, 18 of whom were females and 9 of whom were males chosen from Lebanon's nine official television stations, thereby comprising 2 females and 1 male from each television station. The gendered distribution of the respondents ensured the inclusion of both the male and female perspectives of the newsroom environment. The findings were thematically divided under cultural and social capitals, gendered news division, age and appearance, the glass ceiling, obstacles and advancement strategies. The findings revealed the Lebanese television newsroom as a field that juggles interstate and intra-state rivalries which are part of the television's politico-sectarian identity. Journalists in this field deal with its politico-sectarian complexities as well as inter-newsroom gendered interaction, subject to socio-cultural influences. This study showed that respondents' career paths are affected in fluid ways by a number of characteristics that intersect with the politicosectarian nature of the Lebanese television and gender. These characteristics, which include age, appearance, parenthood, political and religious affiliations, shape the respondents' experiences and offer them ways to comply with or resist the dominant v
This article aims at expanding the knowledge of identification with the fashion of media characters on the series Gossip Girl (Schwartz and Savage, 2007). Since the subject has already been investigated abroad, this article helps gain an understanding of the topic in Lebanon, and its influence on Lebanese female teenagers and young adults. The theory of Identification is adopted throughout the study. The article uses a qualitative research method to analyse a series of interviews with eighteen Lebanese females, between the ages of 16 and 26 years old. The interview questions are explored under four themes: the fashion element of Gossip Girl, similarities, imitation and identification. The main findings indicate that the interviewees are aware of the prominent fashion element of the series and imitate their favourite characters in terms of fashion styles. This leads to the deduction of identification with Gossip Girl characters' fashion styles.
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