Enduring themes and silences in media portrayals of violence against women

Easteal, Patricia; Holland, Kate; Judd, Keziah

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2014.10.015

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“…For instance, Iyengar [ 19 ] analyses television news frames that focused on specific events (episodic frames) compared to those that put events in a wider context (thematic frames) for a number of political issues, and concluded that “exposure to episodic news makes viewers less likely to hold public officials accountable for the existence of some problem and also less likely to hold them responsible for alleviating it” (p. 2–3). Easteal et al’s [ 20 ] study which examined the power of the media to transform the public opinion about violence against women found that the media create its own reality of VAWG by using framing tactics that separate the issue from the wider social context. A number of studies have shown that news media framing can affect what individuals think about risk options, political issues, and social issues [ 21 , 22 ].…”

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Ghanaian media coverage of violence against women and girls: implications for health promotion

Owusu‐Addo¹,

Owusu-Addo²,

Antoh³

et al. 2018

BMC Women's Health

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BackgroundViolence against women and girls (VAWG) is an important public health issue. Framing studies indicate that how the news media cover public health issues is critical for designing effective health promotion interventions. Notwithstanding this, there is little research particularly in low-and middle-income country context examining how the news media frame VAWG. This paper examines news coverage of VAWG in Ghana, and the implications of this for health promotion.MethodsThis study used frame analysis as the methodological framework in examining how VAWG in Ghana is represented by the media. Qualitative content analysis approach to frame analysis was performed on 48 news articles which constituted the unit of analysis.ResultsThe findings indicate that media framing of VAWG was episodic in nature as the acts of violence perpetrated against women and girls were presented as individual cases without reference to the wider social contexts within which they occurred. Similarly, victim blaming language was largely used in the news articles. In framing VAWG as an individual incident and women as helpless victims, the media fail to shape society’s perception of VAWG as a social and public health issue.ConclusionsFor the media in Ghana to contribute to the prevention of VAWG, there is the need for news coverage to focus on social construction of the issue, and also raise awareness about support services available to victims.

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Ghanaian media coverage of violence against women and girls: implications for health promotion

Owusu‐Addo¹,

Owusu-Addo²,

Antoh³

et al. 2018

BMC Women's Health

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“…Importantly, these can both contribute to the 'production of myths' (West, 2004(West, -2005 and be influenced by stereotypes and mythology (Mead, 1997, p. 6). For example, feminist theorists have noted that 'representations of violence against women may in fact reflect the media's ambivalence towards feminism and a tendency to reflect an uneasy coalition of patriarchal values and the language of empowerment' (Easteal, Holland & Judd, 2015: 106, discussing Mendes, 2012and Walter, 2010.…”

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How are women who kill portrayed in newspaper media? Connections with social values and the legal system

Easteal¹,

Bartels²,

Nelson³

et al. 2015

Women's Studies International Forum

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“…Se han atribuido a la mediación-mediatización tareas muy diversas y complejas. Para Martín Barbero (2002), al "mediar la producción de los imaginarios que integran la experiencia de los ciudadanos", los medios son constitutivos del espacio de lo público y fuente de los recursos sociales de sentido; proporcionan las matrices de la organización (y de la des-y re-organización) de la experiencia social. También Silverstone considera centrales los medios en la cotidiana tarea de dar sentido al mundo y a la experiencia.…”

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La mediación fragmentaria. Mediatización y controversia en la nueva esfera pública

Lorusso¹,

Violi²

2017

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Se parte aquí de una visión pragmática de la esfera pública (EP), que la entiende como el espacio construido por las acciones e interacciones comunicativas en torno a los asuntos y problemas públicos. Para comprender la nueva EP, más abierta e inestable que nunca, se propone estudiar los procesos de mediación-mediatización por los que los "problemas sociales" son transformados en "problemas públicos", y cómo se generan o impiden las controversias que ponen en discusión, en la interacción entre "EP central" y "EP periféricas", los intereses, perspectivas y propuestas de solución de los actores interesados en los problemas comunes. Entendemos la EP como espacio de mediación-mediatización (conexión y transformación) de doble sentido y constantemente variable entre ciudadanía, mundo común y orden institucional-político. Participar en ese mediador, la EP, requiere reconocer sus cualidades como: a) un conjunto de arenas públicas o escenarios; b) un espacio de controversia, de reconocimiento y poder; c) un espacio de inscripción, de memoria y temporalidad compartida y d) un espacio institucionalizado necesariamente vinculado a espacios poco o nada institucionalizados. La institucionalización de ciertos valores que permiten que la opinión ejerza como "cuarto poder" garantiza un mínimo de calidad a esa esfera y con ella a la democracia.

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Enduring themes and silences in media portrayals of violence against women

Cited by 100 publications

References 49 publications

Ghanaian media coverage of violence against women and girls: implications for health promotion

Ghanaian media coverage of violence against women and girls: implications for health promotion

How are women who kill portrayed in newspaper media? Connections with social values and the legal system

La mediación fragmentaria. Mediatización y controversia en la nueva esfera pública

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