Creating a Monster

Ritchie, Jessica

doi:10.1080/14680777.2011.647973

Cited by 25 publications

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“…A common argument in the literature on political communication is that female politicians come across as less authentic compared to male politicians, simply because the political leaders have traditionally been male, and thus, the expectations of voters will relate to this stereotype of a male political leader (Parry-Giles, 2014; Richie, 2013; see also Clinton, 2017). Accordingly, we might expect female politicians to be evaluated by the voters as less authentic than male politicians.…”

Section: Female Politicians Deemed As Most Authenticmentioning

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Trust in the Age of Social Media: Populist Politicians Seem More Authentic

Enli

Rosenberg

2018

Social Media + Society

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The current debate about declining media trust is related not only to the disruptive changes in the media but also to the general decline of trust in institutions and politicians. This article combines the perspectives of media trust and political trust, by examining to what degree voters perceive politicians as "honest" in the contexts of various media and communication forms. Comparing the voters' evaluation of politicians' trustworthiness in talk shows, news interviews, speeches, flyers, social media, and opinion pieces makes it possible to measure the impact of media contexts on the level of trust. A key finding is that voters deem politicians as more honest in social media and opinion pieces, compared to talk shows and news interviews. Second, voters tend to evaluate politicians as more honest in the media formats they most often consume; a finding that confirms the virtuous circle theory; young people typically found politicians to be more dishonest in mainstream media compared to social media A third finding is that the voters tend to evaluate populist politicians as more authentic than traditional politicians and that female politicians were regarded as more authentic compared to male politicians. These findings have implications both for journalistic ideals for coverage of politics in and for political strategic communication.

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Section: Female Politicians Deemed As Most Authenticmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trust in the Age of Social Media: Populist Politicians Seem More Authentic

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Rosenberg

2018

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“…They exacerbated a tendency that has been noted in online constructions of high-profile female politicians internationally. As Ritchie (2013, 103) points out in her article “Creating a Monster” on online media constructions of Hillary Clinton: In contemporary American politics, the campaign trail constitutes a forum in which gender boundaries are tested and negotiated. Anxieties about women in power, debates about the balance of career versus family, issues concerning women's reproductive choices, uneasiness about women's relationship to war and militarism, and the gendering of public and private spaces all intensify with the entrance of women into political contests.…”

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“…While Gillard's male communication adviser may have been surprised by the Australian media's treatment of Gillard, a key study concluded that it was “unfortunately, entirely predictable when placed in the larger, international context of how female leaders are reported by media across the world” (Young and Ricketson 2014, 292). Like Gillard, other prominent female politicians, such as Hillary Clinton (Ritchie 2013) or even, on her death, Margaret Thatcher (Evans 2013), have also been subject to vicious online sexist attacks. The very same gendered terms that were used against Gillard, such as “witch” and “bitch” (Sawer 2013, 112) were also used against Clinton and Thatcher.…”

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Playing the Gender Card: The Uses and Abuses of Gender in Australian Politics

Johnson

2015

Pol & Gen

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Former Australian Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard was accused of unfairly playing the gender card against then Opposition Leader Tony Abbott in her accusations of sexism and misogyny. It was also claimed that she had thereby initiated the first “gender war” in Australian politics. Analyzing Australian politicians’ discursive mobilizations of gender during the Gillard period provides useful insights that are relevant to the broader international literature on gender and politics, particularly given that Gillard's experiences have similarities with those of prominent female politicians in other countries, including Hillary Clinton. The article argues for a much broader understanding of playing the gender card that includes both issues of femininity and masculinity and that also emphasizes the close relationship between issues of playing the gender card and issues of gender performativity.

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“…Conversely, aggressiveness, toughness, physicality and working outside the home were found to be typical characteristics for toys and games directed at boys. Other literature has addressed media backlash when women in the public realm gain increased levels of power and authority, such as coverage of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign (Ritchie, 2013), as well as the gradual de-politicization of feminist discourse in print media (Mendes, 2012) and popular television programming (Myers, 2013). In varying ways, this literature illustrates the dominance of patriarchal constructions of gender in popular culture, as well the resulting backlash when these dominant ideals are then challenged.…”

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The consumption of patriarchy: commodification to facilitation and reification

Collins

Rothe

2017

Contemporary Justice Review

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There is an abundance of research from cultural, critical and feminist criminology that has recognized media as a vehicle to propagate various forms of gender inequality and violence against women. Likewise, there has been extensive research on how childhood products and toys replicate the patriarchal construction of gender. However, these bodies of research have been relatively silent on how the commodification of culture is consumed and reified by the very population it oppresses (i.e. women). Here, we argue that violence against women is commodified and eagerly consumed in an age of neo-liberalism, legitimizing the patriarchal power structures that subordinate women. Our goal is to begin a discussion of female consumption of the commodification that gives consent and facilitates the patriarchal perpetual power system. Using examples from media and the consumer market, we hope to begin a broader discussion of how patriarchy, gender roles and inequality are reinforced through everyday banal consumption by both sexes. However, this banal consumption by females not only lends to the legitimization of the heteronormative patriarchal status quo but also makes them active participants in the continuation of inequality and power structures inherent within this patriarchal society.

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Creating a Monster

Cited by 25 publications

References 22 publications

Trust in the Age of Social Media: Populist Politicians Seem More Authentic

Trust in the Age of Social Media: Populist Politicians Seem More Authentic

Playing the Gender Card: The Uses and Abuses of Gender in Australian Politics

The consumption of patriarchy: commodification to facilitation and reification

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